On Jan 19, 2008 4:03 PM, Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given (a) a file and (b) a list of keywords, how do I get a list > of column positions of the keywords in the file? Each keywd may occur > in any line, no order implied, multiple times, multiple keywords on a line > (including up to, and including, none of them).
Since you talk about keywords, any chance you can break up the lines into words? If necessary by xlate of all non-word characters into blanks first. Once you have that, you would just need to keep track of which fragment is from which line, and add up the length again. Rob
