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i have a large file with embedded sequential lines containing the word "expected" or "received":
for example
line 1 some data
line 2 some more data
line 3 123expected456
line 4 123received456...

how do i search for the phrase "expected" on line one and
"received" on line two. (there is a newline in between the two)
I would like to know if/how this can be done in perl and/or
grep and/or sed

i am using windows nt hummingbird 7.0 host explorer telnet emulation. I have two connections to two different unix machines.
on one, the down arrow works fine in vi (it woks like the j option
on...

thanx,
I never would have thought of that

thanx,
I tried it and it seems to work

is there any way i can limit the search command in vi to look only at specific columns (e. g., columns 1-10)?

I share a login id/password with several folks so I don't like to change the .profile or other environment variables (e. g., set ignorecase in vi) that other users may expect to be set. Any...