You can also use [text search], although t's not so easy to find more than the first instance. If you don't mind taking a extra step, you could give each line a third term, which is the line number. Then you can use the "> 3" argument for [text search] to find matches s
From: Pd-list pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at on behalf of Jack jack@rybn.org Sent: 21 March 2017 18:14 To: pd-list@lists.iem.at Subject: [PD] Fastest way to find lines in text file
Hello,
I need to find every lines of a textfile containing a word. The textfile has 2.539.592 lines. Now, i am using [msgfile] from zexy because i can find a line, skip a line and find again ... until the end of the textfile. But, i am wondering if there is an other object (in an other library) faster, specialized in this work ? Thanx. ++
Jack
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