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BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
Find
Find[stream, "text"]
finds the first line in an input stream that contains the specified string.
Find[stream, {"text1", "text2", ...}]
finds the first line that contains any of the specified strings.
Details and Options
- 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:
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AnchoredSearch False whether to require that the text searched for be at the beginning of a record IgnoreCase False whether to treat lowercase and uppercase letters as equivalent RecordSeparators {"\r\n", "\n","\r"} 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
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.
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