On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Smith, Jeff wrote:
> I'm sorry to both with such a simple question but I've looked in the
> normal places and don't see the quick and dirty answer I know must
> exist.
>
> I want to write a simple line selection filter that could be used like:
>
> filter < file
>
> I get the
> In Perl I would do:
>
> while (<>)
> {
> print if line meets selection criteria;
> }
You may want to check out the fileinput module.
It takes care of multiple files being passed as input and such like
too.
> for line in sys.stdin:
> if line meets selection criteria:
> print line
>for line
t, I've had the same problem with Perl but because of
my newbie status I assumed I was doin' something wrong :-)
-Original Message-
From: Bill Mill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:38 AM
To: Smith, Jeff
Cc: tutor@python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Simple q
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:28:35 -0500, Smith, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sorry to both with such a simple question but I've looked in the
> normal places and don't see the quick and dirty answer I know must
> exist.
>
No worries; that's what this list is for.
> I want to write a simple l
I'm sorry to both with such a simple question but I've looked in the
normal places and don't see the quick and dirty answer I know must
exist.
I want to write a simple line selection filter that could be used like:
filter < file
In Perl I would do:
while (<>)
{
print if line meets selec
