On 1/13/2010 9:49 AM Paul Melvin said...
Hi,
I have a file generated from a webpage.
I want to search that file for a specific keyword, in my case 'NEW'.
Once I have found that keyword I want to retrieve information below it, e.g.
web link, size of file etc.
When I have this information I move off until I find another 'NEW' and the
process starts all over.
Please can someone give me some pointers on how to do this.
I can find the line containing 'NEW' which I get using a simple for loop on
every line in the file, but how do I then traverse the next x amount of
lines, taking what I want until either the next 'NEW' or eof.
e.g.
for line in file:
if re.findall('NEW', line) # or search
list.append(line) # to do something to later
<don't use list as i shadows the builtin list>
I cannot 'get' to the following lines because I would need to get out of the
loop.
How about (untested):
additionalLines = 3
remainingLines = 0
for line in file:
if 'NEW' in line or remainingLines:
mylist.append(line)
if not remainingLines:
remainingLines = additionalLines
else:
remainingLines -= 1
Emile
I did use enumerate and was wondering if I could use the line number, or
maybe I could use an re iterator.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
paul
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