Hello All,

A straightforward question, I think.

I have a list of 5 tab-delimited items per line. Each item can be
either a single word or a group of words separated by a "/".

Example:

abide   abode/abided    abode/abided/abidden    abides  abiding
alight  alit/alighted   alit/alighted   alights alighting
arise   arose   arisen  arises  arising
awake   awoke   awoken  awakes  awaking
be      was/were        been    is      being

What I want my script to do is find which line contains an exact match
to a given item.

For example:

--  "is", on line 5
-- "alighted", on line 2

All I can think of is to use brute force and go thru the list item by item.

Maybe with "wholematches" or such, there's some faster way?

Thank you.
--
Nicolas Cueto

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