I think I found the answer, in Multi File Search use the search term ^.*searchforthistext.*$ and hit extract and you will get a document that contains every line from the multiple files that contain this text.
On Friday, December 19, 2014 11:51:27 AM UTC-5, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > On 12/19/14 at 11:25 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> (Stuart Hunter) > wrote: > > [...] > >What I want is to have the full line that contains that email > >address copied to a new document such that I then have every > >occurence of that email address in the new document so I can > >pour through it looking for errors. I tried adding * before > >and after the email address to see if that would bring over the > >whole line but that didn't work. > > This is a job for a regular multi-file search (Find All) which > will find all instances of the given address and present a > results browser where you can review each instance (each match) > in context. > > > In contrast, the purpose of the Extract command is to capture > all the data which matches a particular _pattern_ (not a string) > from within a file or set of files, e.g. say you want to gather > every email address which is preceded by "Registered to: ". > > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/> > > > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
