Find

Usage

• Find[stream, "text"] finds the first line in an input stream that contains the specified string.
• Find[stream, {"", "", ... }] finds the first line that contains any of the specified strings.

Notes

• Find breaks the input stream into records, delimited by record separators, and scans each record for the strings you specify.

• Find returns as a string the first record which contains the specified text.

• If Find does not find any record which contains the specified text before it reaches the end of the file, it returns EndOfFile.

• The following options can be given:

AnchoredSearch	False	whether to require that the text searched for be at the beginning of a record
IgnoreCase	False	whether to treat lower and upper case as equivalent
RecordSeparators	{"\n"}	separators for records
WordSearch	False	whether to require that the text searched for appear as a word
WordSeparators	{" ", "\t"}	separators for words

• The first argument to Find can be InputStream["name", n], or simply "name" if there is only one open input stream with the specified name.

• You can open a file or pipe to get an InputStream object using OpenRead.

• Find does not close streams after it finishes reading from them.

• See Section 2.12.9.

• See also: Read, Skip, StreamPosition, StringToStream, NotebookFind.

• New in Version 2.