Re: Seeking assistance - string processing.

2006-11-14 Thread billpaterson2006
Thanks Fredrik, Peter and John for your help. John, I especially enjoyed your line by line assasination of my code, keep it up. I'm not a programmer, I dislike programming, I'm bad at it. I just agreed to do this to help someone out, I didn't even know what python was 3 days ago. In case you wer

Re: Seeking assistance - string processing.

2006-11-14 Thread billpaterson2006
Thanks so much, a really elegant solution indeed. I have another question actually which I'm praying you can help me with: with regards to the .jpg conversion to .jpg]] and .gif -> .gif]] this works, but only when .jpg/.gif is on it's own line. i.e: .jpg will get converted to: .jpg]] but I

Re: Seeking assistance - string processing.

2006-11-14 Thread billpaterson2006
Cheers for the reply. But I'm still having a spot of bother with the === addition it would seem that if there is no whitespace after the ===test then the new === gets added to the next line e.g file contains: ===test (and then no whitesapace/carriage returns or anything) and the result is: ==

Seeking assistance - string processing.

2006-11-14 Thread billpaterson2006
I've been working on some code to search for specific textstrings and act upon them insome way. I've got the conversion sorted however there is 1 problem remaining. I am trying to work out how to make it find a string like this "===" and when it has found it, I want it to add "===" to the end of t