Re: Serching for pattern down one column

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.11.2008 um 01:59 schrieb ingvar:

> I now want to search for the pattern "111" in a column (it should  
> find the
> pattern in column 2 rows 2-4 and column 3 rows 3-5). Does anyone  
> know how to
> do it?


I think it's *not* possible to write *one* regular expression to find  
the occurrence in *any* column, though it's possible to write n  
regexps to find the occurrence in exactly one of the n columns.

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