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Jay Farschman

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January 4, 2017 at 9:35 am #90969
Jay Farschman
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Hi James,

Kai has a point. Grep uses a REGEX, or regular expression. Think of it as a way of abstracting the searches. For example, if I want to find every occurrence time in my document and I know my times look like 10:00 or 1:00 you can see that it follows a pattern — numbers a colon more numbers. There is a pattern there in the characters.

I don’t see the pattern in the Leicester or Earls Barton.

Learning grep isn’t that easy and unless I am mistaken, your current issue isn’t a great example to get you started.

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