Re: using grep to find one match per line

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From: jongware
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:02

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Sure. Let GREP find an entire line at once:

      ^.*sin.*$




But it won't work, I'm afraid. You insist that looking for "sin" will find a match in "SG SIN Singapore"; and not one but two. It won't. Try it.



 __ 
(..) 
 _\

Got that? So use the 'case insensitive' switch

      (?i)^.*sin.*$




or (perhaps better, in this case), as you seem to search for the three letter codes, use

      ^.*\<SIN\>.*$

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