This demonstrates a faster way to search any file and pull a full line from that file given a search string, than the string buffer way. Uses an API method to open a file and store it in a buffer then instr'gs though the buffer to find a match, also compares this to the ordinary string buffer method, API wins by a factor of about 3.5 for a 1 meg text file which is not bad.
Could also open the file as binary and use instr, didn't bother with it though..
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