Zugg Software :: View topic - Request: Funct to search file for string and return line #

Beginner Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 14

I know about %grep, and it's almost what I need, except it returns the value of the line/the lines with it, instead of the line numbers.

Something that functioned the same as grep but put the line numbers into a list instead of the line values, would be absolutely exquisite.

And yes, I know I could loop through the text file and search for the data but that's horribly horribly kludgish and if the file is big it'll be sucky :P

Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:37 pm

Another option, but admitted also a bit of a kludge, is to add your own line numbers to the files.