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Thanks ben...not very familiar with posix syntax... the non-posix compliant regexp ^sow28poc.txt([0-9]+):_ where the underscore is a space worked fine for me. Now i need to only learn how to make the entire sequence of double clicking read in the status line (thanks bveldkamp) and running the find ...

Thanks. Can somebody help me with the needed regexp...the filename is sow28poc.txt followed by linenumber in round brackets, a colon and space...eg. sow28poc.txt(234): ...i need to replace the above in every line with nothing..would be grateful for any help in creating the macro.
mover

thanks. mudguard's suggestion saves several keystrokes..related question..anyway that an external program can be used to bookmark lines in the main window?
mover

Thanks..will try that approach and report.
mover

Thanks ben for your posting...I am afraid 500 words is not enough..typically i have lists which are about 1000 words long with an average of 8 letters...add 3 characters for \|^...for each word as i want to mark only headword entries...i do run into a problem...The best workaround has been to use ...

Thanks MudGuard. The problem with the suggested solution is that it cannot handle a really long list of words. My example had only a few words but i would like to use a file with regular expressions. Thanks in advance.
Mover

Is there a way to suppress the filename and linenumber in the search results window while using find in files. Thanks in advance.
Mover

Is it possible to run an external program on the contents of an opened file in textpad and output results to the search window or cause matches to be marked in the open file? Thanks in advance.
Mohan Chunkath

I am a relative newcomer to Textpad. Would like to know if there is any way to give textpad a list of words and get it to mark lines containing it in a specific file which is open. An example should clarify what I have in mind. I have a file called wordslu.txt containing 10 words, one word to each ...