RE's and grep

[David Kramer]

On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:35 pm, Derek Martin wrote:
> If the file contains more than one word per line (such as a dictionary
> with definitions), this won't work.  It can still be done, but you'd
> need a lot more logic.  AFAIK, there's no way to do that with a single
> regular expression, or even a simple pipeline.

It can be done in Perl in one step using the /g modifier. 

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