If you don't find any good program, maybe writing a perl-script that
emulates grep would be an option?
Even though the regex syntax would be slightly different...
Michaela Atterer
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Dragomir R. Radev wrote:
> Have you considered using cygwin (a unix shell lookalike) which runs
> under Windows and which has grep?
>
>>
>> This next semester, I'd like to have the students in my Corpus
>> Linguistics class learn to use Grep tools for searching large corpora. I
>> know there's many great, fast Unix tools, but these students will be
>> using Windows machines. If possible, the program would have the
>> following features:
>>
>> -- Fast, since they'll be working with fairly large corpora (100 million
>> words and more)
>> -- Obviously, full regular expressions capability
>> -- Not run under Cygwin or a similar program, but rather as a native
>> Windows app
>>
>> I've already looked at PowerGrep, V-Grep, and TextPad, but none of these
>> are adequate. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Mark Davies
>>
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>> Mark Davies
>> Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
>> Brigham Young University
>> (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
>> Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu
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>> ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
>> ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
>> ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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> Dragomir R. Radev Associate Professor
> SI, CSE, Ling U. Michigan, Ann Arbor
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev radev@umich.edu
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