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From: GHAVERLA@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA (G Haverland)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: DELIMITED search
Message-ID: <1092@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 31 Oct 90 14:25:30 GMT
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In article <1990Oct29.134654.18929@cid.aes.doe.CA>, afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA writes:
 
>
> How, in general, can I do delimited searches in UNIX. i.e. How do I
> search for say the string "the" without finding there their other
> thesaurus...... AND including "the" at the beginning and end of a line
> eh?
>
>--
>Pat Hertel                 Canadian Meteorological Centre
>Analyst/Programmer         2121 N. Service Rd.        % rm God
>phertel@cmc.aes.doe.ca     Dorval,Quebec              rm: God non-existent
>Environment Canada         CANADA           H9P1J3
 
Not sure what UNIX programs you are using, and exactly what your
needs are, but the following will work.  Search for three different
strings, and then combine the results.  The first string to look for
is " the " (the in spaces), the next to look for is "%the" (sorry
caret (begining of line character) doesn't exist on this VM machine),
and the last to look for is "the$" (look for the at end of line).
grep can be told to ignore case (-i) if this is what you are using.
If vi or emacs, there should be a magic variable that can be set
before doing the search.
 
Gordon Haverland, U of Alberta SLOWPOKE Facility