using grep to find one match per line

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From: Schedule_Boy
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:30

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Hi,

How do you get grep to return a single line even when multiple matches are found on the same line?

I tried the (?-m) and (?-s) without success.

eg. searching for the string "sin" in the following line should return only one result not 2.

SG SIN Singapore

I don't want the search to stop after a single match, it should continue on successive lines

Thanks,
SB

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