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Subject:Re: Line Numbers in ASCII File From:Peter Kleczka <pkleczka -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:08:25 -0800 (PST)
Steve
Try Programmer's File Editor http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe
In addition to allowing you to perform
searches, you can toggle the line numbers
on/off.
Its really a great all around tool for
working with text files. I think
its only available for Windows tho.
HTH
Pete (pkleczka -at- yahoo -dot- com)
--- Steve Goldberg <steveg -at- raqia -dot- com> wrote:
> We have a huge ASCII text file against which we
> would like to do
> searches to find matching strings in the text. Once
> we match a
> particular text string we would like to be able to
> determine on what
> line number or page number that string is located.
> Does anyone know of a way to do this? In Word, of
> course, it's simple,
> but that formatting is lost when the file is saved
> as plain text.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve
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