Hi Steve,

Microsoft's powershell has a built in 'grep' functionality. It will give you strings from every checked file which contains the searched expression. More infos here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/archive/2007/07/09/grep-and-sed-with-powershell.aspx

>Actually, I think I should give a better example. Here is what the contents of
>each file look like. This is the file "plants.d" and all the files
>look the same, inside.
>
>What I want to search within is either the #wd
>(this is a word in a foreign language.)
>
>Or I want to search #gl which is the #wd but in English, And I need to be
>able to do this across multiple files. I am just wondering if there
>is a regular expression search that is all setup to do this
>
>#B
>#lg DC
>#wd rros kastii (Sp.)
>#gl wild rose
>#E
>
>#B
>#lg DC
>#wd epsii
>#mp oOp+si:+
>#gl creosote bush | chaparral
>#E
>
>#B
>#lg DC
>#wd pshii
>#mp p+sSi:+
>#gl greasewood
>#E