Thank you to all. In particular, how can the indices of the matching lines be returned - I've a matlab background so am used to working from the indices.
On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 8:52:34 PM UTC+1, Jason McConochie wrote: > > Is there grep for an Array of AbstractStrings? See code below > > > # A. Read a file into memory (nLines pre-determined) > > fID=open(fName) > > iLine=0; > > rLines=Array(ASCIIString,nLines); > > while !eof(fID) > > iLine+=1 > > rLines[iLine]=readline(fID) > > end > > > # B. Find all strings in rLines with "parameter" > > ???? Is something like this possible? > > indices=grep(rLines,r"parameter") > > > >