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searchstring.py
#File being in same directory as current program
with open('filename.txt') as f:
lines = f.read().splitlines()
print(len(lines))
matching = [s for s in lines if "SearchString" in s] #return the list of lines with SearchString in it
if len(matching)==0:
print "Not found"
else:
print matching
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