Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-25 Thread joe
Still hoping to find someone who can build the subject program. Is a bid of $100.00 reasonable for this project? If not, please tell me what would be reasonable. Can anyone suggest a source where I might find a programmer who could do this? I've put together a page to try to explain my

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-25 Thread Bob Elzer
Do you have an apache web server what about a CGI script I had my phone list in a CSV file, I then have two Perl scripts The first one builds a web page with the list The second is a CGI, that searches the HTML file and retrieves the matching lines. You enter your search criteria in a simple HTML

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-25 Thread joe
Thanks Bob, but I'm afraid the apache web server and cgi script approach is way over my head. Really hoping for a minimalist solution that is much simpler to just do the search on a plain, unformatted text file (perhaps with grep?). Joe --- Bob Elzer wrote: Do you have an apache

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-25 Thread reader
All the extra stuff just supports the GUI. The operations would be performed on a simple text file and you would be able to modify it by hand, if desired. Jon On 04/25/2013 12:50 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Thanks Bob, but I'm afraid the apache web server and cgi script approach is way over

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-24 Thread joe
Thanks for all the suggestions, guys; but I don't understand any of those. I just want to find somebody who can make what I'm seeking for a reasonable fee. - Dazed: For simple and cross platform, consider zenity: Kevin: I still don't get python's paradigm ... whereas perl ... James:

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-24 Thread reader
The simplest solution I can think of is just to use any available text editor, or MS Word or Libre Office writer. You have the ability to search as well as edit. Dumping the results of all the entries that match a search won't be easy, though. The advantage is minimum or no work to view -

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-24 Thread joe
Thanks Jon. Yes, there no doubt are plenty of people who could do what I described in my initial message, but I just don't know where to look to find them. My current method works fine, and I do use the kwrite text editor and Libre Office (however I try to never let anything from M$ corrupt my

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-23 Thread joe
Kevin wrote: You could build something pretty easily using Perl with either Wx or Tk as the GUI interface. Then create the entry fields that you want (search, add, edit, etc...). Great thing is, then you could make them work together with the same dataset (your txt file). Thanks Kevin ...

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-23 Thread Kevin Brown
That it might, be easier to learn that is, but I still don't get python's paradigm of using whitespace to control structure. It's caused me nothing but headaches when trying to use other code snippets. Where as languages like Perl, C, etc..., I can just copy and paste whole blocks into my

Re: OT: (or is it) seeking app for a single file content search

2013-04-23 Thread Dazed_75
For something very simple and cross platform, you might consider using zenity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenity On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Kevin Brown kevinbrown...@gmail.comwrote: That it might, be easier to learn that is, but I still don't get python's paradigm of using