On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> wrote: > I believe this is often called a "proximity search." these days, this would be a job for a search engine. eg, for perl http://search.cpan.org/~tmtm/Plucene-1.25/lib/Plucene.pm -- Bill n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com