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Smart GUI-based text search tool
I have an occasional need to do custom text searches. I could write a small program to do this every time I needed this, but I was wondering if there’s a GUI-based tool out there that is capable of doing these sorts of chores by simply configuring some rules.
For example, I currently have a need to search a very large text file from top to bottom, look for the occurrence of “STRING A”, and when it finds “STRING A”, look for the next occurrence of “STRING B”. When it finds “STRING B”, append “STRING B” to another text file (or text window I can copy the list of “STRING B” occurrences at the end of the search). It would also be nice if it could be configured to not add “STRING B” to the output file or window if it’s already in the output file or window, but that would just be icing on the cake. The same search rules are not always like this exactly, so finding a tool that I can easily reconfigure to do things like this would be great to have around without having to script or code every time I need this sort of functionality.