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From: cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy)
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Subject: Re: Proximity Search
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Date: 8 Apr 91 17:09:39 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.225455.2281@eplrx7.uucp> cristy@dupont.com writes:
>  I need a program to perform proximity search on a file of text.

There seems to be two useful options for performing proximity searches:
 
  1. Ed Vielmetti & Adrian Ho recommend lq-text (anonymous ftp from
     ftp.cs.toronto.edu).
 
  2. Randal Schwartz recommends perl with this script:
 
       perl -ne 'print if /\bbig\b.{1,20}\bhouse\b' somefile
 
Thanks all for your suggestions.
 
cristy@dupont.com
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