Vbscript: I want to search in a text file for a string and return the line of the string

how can i achieve this ?

itbabe

Asked: 2011-03-14

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jsvorCommented: 2011-03-14

Without knowing what you have already you can view this article that explains how to do it.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2007/03/29/how-can-i-search-a-text-file-for-strings-meeting-a-specified-pattern.aspx

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GundogTrainerCommented: 2011-03-14

Something like below should work - (similar code to your other question.)

Const ForReading = 1

CurrentLineNum=0
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oTextFile = oFSO.OpenTextFile ("TextFileforReading.txt", ForReading)

Do Until oTextFile.AtEndOfStream
CurrentLineNum=CurrentLineNum+1
    sLine = oTextFile.ReadLine
    If instr(sline,"LookForMe")
             WScript.Echo CurrentLineNum,sLine
           Next
    End If
Loop

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