Ed Finnell wrote... >Don't know if you can do it in one command but can do the ONLY >trick of ===>ONLY abc pre >Then ===>FIND xyz suf nx all
The above would find strings such as "zzzxyz abczzz", but I think Jim only wanted to find strings where XYZ comes *after* ABC.
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