Use Clipboard to Find Text in a File, Select Text and Copy It

That sounds like a Graphical User Interface event – do you have a particular editor in mind ?

Or do you simply want to repopulate the clipboard with the following line (if there is one, when and if a match is found) from the file ?

(in which case no editing app needs to be involved)

the text right underneath it

  • The string in the same column ?
  • At the same starting position defined as a character offset from the left ?
  • The length of the text copied defined by word boundaries ?

As always, you would need to show us an example.

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