On 26 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One of the worst I think was doing loads of real spazzy stuff trying to
> split whole files in to lists of letters and use string methods to find
> the first uppercase one.
Hi Chris,
An approach like this might work. Rather than read the whole thing into a
honking big list, though, we can just iterate through it, letter by
letter, by using read(1). Here's one way we might do it that way:
### Pseudocode ###
currentLine = 1
while True:
nextChar = someFile.read(1)
if not nextChar:
break
elif isNewline(nextChar):
currentLine += 1
elif isUppercased(nextChar):
break
print currentLine
######
This approach avoids sucking the whole file into memory, and is a
reasonable approach too.
Best of wishes!
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