Find word

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 11-Feb-00 Pedro Silva wrote:
 >      I have a file, that is a text file that is in teh filesystem. I need to
 >  get some lines in that file, and for that I need to find some words. For
 >  example, in that file     I know that I have the words: From, Subject, Date
 >  and Xref and I need the text that is after this words. 
 >      How can I find these words?

string.find(s,sub[,start[,end]]) is your friend.

/Mikael

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