Show matching text files matching whole word in line(s) only?

[frew]

Hello,

I've cataloged a bunch of .wav files amongst lots of other kinds of files over the years in a collection of text files.

I'm trying to figure out how to write a script that will

search through about 900 text files, which are all in the same folder,

and show me only the names of the text files that contain

one or more lines that contain the exact string "4.wav"

So, for example, here's what some text files might contain in them:

(textfile_1.txt is a match, because it contains one or more lines that contain

exactly "4.wav" with nothing else in that line.)

textfile_1.txt

4.wav

104.wav

lake.txt

(textfile_2.txt is not a match, because there's no line that

contains exactly "4.wav")

textfile_2.txt

104.wav (104.wav is not exactly 4.wav)

autumn.txt

Thanks for any help with this.

[GEOSoft]

Since you didn't state what the lines look like this is just a guess.

$sFile = "textfile_2.txt" ;; you will probably be getting this by looping through an array or some similar manner like FileFindFirst/NextFile()
If StringRegExp(FileRead($sFile), "(?i)(?m:^)4\.wav") Then
    MsgBox(0, "Result", "We have a match")
Else
   MsgBox(0, "Result", "No match")
EndIf

[frew]

Wow !

Very nice! It works very well.

I appreciate your help with this.

By the way, the lines in the text files look like these examples, but with many more lines in them:

textfile_1.txt (the file named textfile_1.txt has these kinds of lines in them)

4.wav

104.wav

lake.txt

textfile_2.txt (the file named textfile_2.txt has these kinds of lines in them)

104.wav

autumn.txt

Also, wow, I wish I could get the regular expression stuff, but it just seems way difficult for now.

Any links to known good basic regular expression tutorials perhaps?

Thanks again!

frew

[GEOSoft]

With that type of layout for the text files; the expression I gave you should always work and I'm glad it works for you.

If you look in my signature there is a PCRE toolkit that allows you to test RegExps as used in AutoIt. The help menu contains links to a few resources for RegEx and there is a small built-in library of sample expressions. You can also create new libraries in which you would store expressions that you want to save for future reference.