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[longen]

Is there a utility (for Windows XP) to search through html or txt files to find out if a certain string isn't on that page.
I dont see why programs that search files for a string of text can't also display files that do not contain the string, but the utilities i've tried don't have that facility.

[jonrichd]

I'm pretty sure that grep will do the trick for you, although it is a unix command line utility that has been ported over to Windows. I don't have a copy installed on my laptop here so I can't be absolutely sure, but you should be able to find a copy and chedk it out.

[Matt Probert]

It would be trivial to write such a utility in Perl, scan each file containing '.htm' or '.txt' in the directory and if a specified string is NOT found by the end of the file display the file name.

Matt