I need a program to search through a text document.?

Question

I have a large text document containing about 600,000 names and addresses. Im looking for certain groups of names, especially groups of people listed togther. Does anyone know of a program to do this? WordPad searches but only one at a time and doesnt tell me what the total number of each name exists.

Answer 1

grep or awk

u can find grep here
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

and awk
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm

just read the man pages or u can serach about grep and awk examples at a search engine u will find a lot
im using this two to handle log files(250000 lines +) and they are more than helpful

Answer 2

Try some downloads from fist link below. Most are shareware
The second link seems to be a freeware.
"Grep" is a keyword often used for searching files.
I not sure if the Windows GUI based tools count the hits like you want to. One method I can think of is to install UNIX based tools from www.cygwin.com and perform the following command from the command line

grep "[search phrase]" [document name] | wc -l
grep is the command that lists the lines with the text and wc is the command that counts the output.

Answer 3

i do not comprehend of a software that does this. even if, with some programming or the use of the unix approaches, grep or awk (variations ported to homestead windows) and a universal expressions equipped textual content editor, that is going to be really common. the needed set of regulations will be to save your document as textual content in undemanding words, and then use the approaches to positioned a unmarried note on each and each line. variety the record of words, and use uniq or awk to count number and reveal the counts of each note.

Answer 4

If you have windows, open the text document, push Ctrl and f at the same time. you will then see a search window. type in a word or phrase and click the find next button.

Answer 5

if you have MS Access. try to open the file in that. It will ask you if you want to put the list into a table. Answer yes. Then use the query wizard to get the answers you are looking for.

Answer 6

This sounds like it might do what you want, though I;m not certain:

http://www.kgpsoftware.com/gfind.htm

If not, look around at http://www.freewarehome.com

Try searching their site for "Text Search" or something similar. All programs you find there are totally free.

Answer 7

If it is a win text based doc then just control f ad you should find what you are looking for. It'll take time but it is free.

Answer 8

I used Word. I understand that it is not free and it is part of Office Suite, but it would do the job.