Search Many Docs to Return Search Results

[Sivakatirswami]

I feel like I'm about to reinvent the wheel here... and I believe I even 
posted this query once before but am having trouble finding the emails 
where some good souls responded previously

Can anyone who has created any search-many-docs scripts  post their 
library or scripts for  returning search results? or point to a stack 
online that has contains scripts that will serve?

We want to the user to enter a term... Rev will dig a number of html 
files. Not many, so, we will just read them from disk.

The search "engine" will step through the documents and return a list of 
hits. We retrieve the entire line using lineoffset and move on to the 
next instance in the same doc. Then proceed to the next file. For 
display we want to show the user about 100 chars before and after the 
term found and then post this to a search results field, where she can 
see the results, hover over the small excerpt will pop up the whole 
line-paragraph, and a click will open the document (set the html text of 
a field to the doc) and take her to that place in the document.

I have parts of the above here and there in various stacks, especially 
the last part I have some code that steps through a field and sets the 
highlight color of the search term and the user can quickly scan and see 
his term in color...  and I think I can put it together, but... I'm 
guessing many of you already have various flavors of this scenario 
already built and much better coded than I could do. so, if anyone has 
any snippets for any part of the above scenario I can put them together 
with what I have.

Thanks!

Sivakatirswami