Re: Grep Text File for Lines Containing 1 or 2 Words

From: Buck Turgidson (jc_va_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/26/05


Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:10:24 -0500

awk 'NF && NF <= 2' FILENAME

"Tad McClellan" <tadmc@augustmail.com> wrote in message
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> Buck Turgidson <jc_va@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Looking for help in writing a perl that will pull from a text file those
> > lines containing one or two "words". I want to reject any line that
> > contains more than 2 words (a sentence).
> >
> > Appreciate any help from text processing experts.
>
>
> Show us the code you have so far, and we will help you fix it.
>
>
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> Tad McClellan SGML consulting
> tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
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