Re: Compound search

On Nov 5, 6:00 pm, Bee <beeyaw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 4, 9:38 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > suppose I want to find "holidays" after "work".
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> > The text, which I want to search has 50000 lines.
> > The first word is "work" and the last one is "holidays".
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> > I do a
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> >     :/work/;/holidays/
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> > The resulting match is the whole text somehow.
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> > But may be I only want to find "holidays" which not
> > such a huge gap after "work"...
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> > Is it possible to search for "holidays" right after work
> > in less than a defineable distance or no "holidays" at all?
> > Or is this to hard work? ;)
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> > Have a nice weekend!
> > Best regards,
> > mcc
>
> This will search for 'work' and within 88 characters (including
> returns) 'holidays'
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> /work\_.\{1,88}\holidays
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> season to taste
>
> -Bill

Oops try again removing the last '\'

/work\_.\{1,88}holidays

PS
Is there any way to edit or delete a post?

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