grep question

From: John Dunn (jdunn_at_sefas.com)
Date: 03/24/05

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    Date:         Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:41:48 -0000
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    I want to search for a lines matching a string in a file, but ignore the
    first 8 characters in each line in the search. However I do not want to
    remove the first 8 characters from the file.

    Can I do this with grep?

    John

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