searching files

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"Chris Liechti" <cliechti at gmx.net> wrote in message
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> please provide more information about your data structure and what exactly
> you want to search (names, numbers etc) and you will get more useful
> feedback from this group.

Well, I am storing every entry in a file. It stores only the name and the
telephone number, and is tab delimited (name surname [TAB] tel.). I am
trying to write a function to which a searchstring would be passed which
would look into the entire file and show the entry that matches.
I would like it to search both names and tel. numbers.

Thank you, once again.