Darren New wrote:
> The thing I refused to explain (such as finding text in document 
> comments but not document content) isn't trivial in Linux, either.

For example, say you wanted a chart of the top ten memory usage processes, 
as a pretty chart, in a word processing document.

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/matthijs/C-40-and-beyond-by-Anders-Hejlsberg/

Go to about 46:25 there. Look at the listing. This says "take the processes 
running from the kernel, sort by descending size, put the first ten in 
Excel, tell Excel to draw a chart of it, copy the chart onto the clipboard, 
and paste it into Word."   And it's about as many lines long as those number 
of sentences.  *That* is what I'm talking about in terms of complex files. 
And you can do that from every scripting and compiled language on Windows 
that supports COM, and I've yet to find one that didn't.

As you can see, grepping thru a directory of excel spreadsheets for ones 
that use both "sin" and "cos" in the same formula would be a pretty easy 
program to write, if you needed something like that.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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