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[Guest]

Let's say I have internal variables that I wish to use to filter a text file, so that AHK displays only certain rows in the text file.

For example, say I am looking for a particular last name in a field of many fields, in a text file with over 6000 records. Only those fields that match a specific field of a row should get displayed. The last name could be in other parts of the field but I only want to look in specific columns for the match.

My text file is delimited of course.

What is the best AHK method to go about doing this?

Thanks in Advance

[Titan]

RegExMatch()
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RegExReplace("irc.freenode.net/ahk", "^(?=(.(?=[\0-r\[]*((?<=\.).))))(?:[c-\x73]{2,8}(\S))+((2)|\b[^\2-]){2}\D++$", "$u3$1$3$4$2")

[n-l-i-d]

Loop, Parse (example #4, combination of Loop, Read and Loop, Parse)

[skwire]

I've written many tools for work in AHK that do exactly what you're wanting to do. Are you able to share a few data row samples?

[ScottEdge]

you could just use SQL with an include

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12752&highlight=sql