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hi all , i wrote a simple code that will open a text file generated from MS Excel, so in general this file contains words that i want to search , if i want to look for a specific word lets say "happy" and if found return "ok word found"

how can i do this....please help me with code or documents to read because i dont really know C++


so in general i want to open a txt file and search it for the word "happy" and return okay if found and no if not found

thanks alot
Aug 21 '06 #1
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Get a copy of grep for your system (which is already on a unix system or use Find or FindStr on Windows
Aug 26 '06 #2

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