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Full text search on filesystem

warrenaldo · 2007-08-16 12:44:00

Guys, Looking to develop an app that will allow me to search a directory of .doc files for particlar keywords. If it finds that keyword i want to extra a couple of lines above/below that. Anybody know of an API that can do this for me in an Programming language.

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16-08-2007 1:44pm

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warrenaldo

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Guys,

Looking to develop an app that will allow me to search a directory of .doc files for particlar keywords. If it finds that keyword i want to extra a couple of lines above/below that.

Anybody know of an API that can do this for me in an Programming language.

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#2 16-08-2007 2:19pm
Evil Phil

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Windows explorer will allow you to do a text search on a folder so there's an API call there somewhere. Somebody else probably knows what its called.

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