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In article <1d9jzsy.gw3zx21k1ng09N@pwomar.demon.co.uk>,
{$PW$}@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:

> I'm looking for some tools ont eh mac that will allow some serious text
> processing, I particularly need to do the following:
> 
> 1, I have an alaphetical text file (newsgroups) with lots of duplicate
> entries which I want removed, someone suggested I use Excel but it
> complained that the data had only one column.
> 2, I want to extract lines contianing a specific string to a text file
> or allow me to give it a string with wildcards (full regex even) to
> extract to a file.  I need to extract all the message-ids of the
> postings I have made from a text file, so either I want to be able to
> type "Message-id:" and it'll extract the whole lines to a file or type
> something like "Message-id: <*>" to extract just that specific text with
> anything replacing the *.

You could try FilterTop, a FreeWare batch processing application for the
Macintosh - it should be able to do this and more - you don't need to
learn any new programming languages like Perl, as FilterTop uses a
graphical user interface to "plumb" together configurable "filters" to do
what you want.

For more info on FilterTop, visit :

<http://www.topsoft.org>

Regards, Terry

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