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Originally Posted by imran042
use regular expressions
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That was not very helpful, was it.....
johnson;
If you need to match that exact sentence, then that is what you have to use in the search term. The problem is that something like grep will see the special characters as something in a Regex----eg "*" means any number of the preceding character. Thus you have to escape all such characters---eg instead of "*", use "\*"
If you can come up with a search term that is shorter, it will make your life easier. Post a copy of the file, and we might have some ideas.
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