Search for (exact) strings; report line, column and context

Posted by Bob_Mesibov on Mar 8, 2022 9:15 PM EDT
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GNU grep is a great utility but it can only report a search target's line number. Because field location is often important in my data work, I wrote a function that searches for an exact string and returns the string's line and field location (field number and field name) plus the data item containing the string, with the string coloured red.

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