peter wrote:
> Example (one block in ascii file):
> $------------------------
> NAME='ALFA'
> CODE='x'
> $------------------------
>
> There are many similar blocks in the file with different NAMEs and
> different CODEs. What I'm looking for is a script that searchs through
> whole file and finds all strings with name ALFA and based on what CODE
> is after each ALFA (can be x, y or z) the ALFA name is replaced by
> BETAx,BETAy or BETAz and so changed file saves.
name = "myfile"
lines = file(name).readlines()
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
if "ALFA" in line:
code = lines[i + 1].split("=")[1].strip("' \n")
lines[i] = line.replace("ALFA", "BETA%s" % code)
file(name).writelines(lines)
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