Peter Cushing wrote:
> MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
>> I need to search a whole bunch of files and identify where a text string
>> does NOT exist. My colleague says he thinks there's a regular
>> expression for what I need, and our utility (Search and Replace, from
>> funduc.com) allows for RegExp.
>>
>> Can someone fluent in RegExp tell me what I should use for the expression?
>>
>>
> Why don't you just search the files for the string and if you don't find
> it, it does not exist.
> Is there some other reason for not using that approach?
Forget it...I already wrote script that basically did a FILETOSTR and
then searched for the text via something like NOT("text=123" $
lower(lcFileToStr)) and that got me what I needed.
Thanks anyway.
--
Mike Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
President, Chief Software Architect
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