Re: [Corpora-List] Grep for Windows

From: Ciarán Ó Duibhín (ciaran@oduibhin.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2006 - 01:00:53 MET

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    I can't really judge if it would meet your needs, but the UltraEdit text
    editor for Windows (http://www.ultraedit.com/) has regular expression
    searching of plain text files (and I've never hit a file size limit with
    it). It handles Unicode as well as ANSI.
    Ciarán Ó Duibhín.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Mark Davies" <Mark_Davies@byu.edu>
    To: <corpora@hd.uib.no>
    Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:59 PM
    Subject: [Corpora-List] Grep for Windows

    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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    Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
    Brigham Young University
    (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
    Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu

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