On 10 Jan 05  18:38:02, Dale Shipp got back to All 
-> Re: Search

 DS> Is there a command in 4NT that will search a file for a particular
 DS> string and then allow the string following that to be read?

I don't use 4NT, but Norton works!   

 DS> I have seen commands that allow looking for a file that contains a
 DS> string, but can't see that it does anything other than returning the
 DS> file name.

FileFind, aka FF, finds the files with the text string.  What's 
nice is that I can open that file and see the context around it 
to deterime if that is really the file I was looking for.  

 DS> Explicitly I want to search a file for the string
 DS> Attachment COnverted:
 DS> and then take the string following that to use as a file name
 DS> parameter into another command.

I can almost do that, but the ALT key and Norton don't like 
each other!   


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