Matchtext for multiple words

Mark Smith mark at maseurope.net
Wed Nov 29 17:13:39 EST 2006


Do you really need to do it with MatchText? Aren't <is in, is among  
the words of> etc going to work? Or do you really need it to be a one- 
liner?

Best,

Mark

ps. That's the third one ;-0

On 29 Nov 2006, at 21:39, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Sorry if this comes through twice, I'm having trouble sending to  
> the list.
>
> I need a matchtext/regex that will tell me if all supplied words  
> exist in a block of text, regardless of their order, and ignoring  
> carriage returns.
>
> For example, see if all these words:  dog dinosaur cat
>
> exist in this text:
>
> "The purple dinosaur inadvertently stepped on the cat.<cr>
> The white dog howled."
>
> Should return true. Is there such a thing?
>
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