How can we read specific lines from a text files using python. File attached.
Suppose we want to read lines starting with 'R|1|^^^' and 'O|1|' Should we use: line.startswith(("..", "..", "----"))
H|\^&|||C311^1|||||host|RSUPL^BATCH|P|1 P|1 O|1|9060^MANWAL ^1^^010|R1|^^^989/\^^^990/\^^^734/\^^^693/\^^^435/\^^^413/\^^^418/\^^^685/\^^^59/\^^^698/\^^^683/\^^^798/\^^^717/\^^^678/\^^^712/\^^^690/\^^^781/|R||||||N||^^||SC|||bmserv| ^ ^ ^ ^ |||20151126133212|||F R|1|^^^989/|141|mmol/l||N||F|||||ISE11 C|1|I|0|I R|2|^^^990/|4.46|mmol/l||N||F|||||ISE11 C|1|I|0|I R|3|^^^734/|0.2|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|4|^^^693/|1.77|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|5|^^^435/|55.2|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|6|^^^413/|4.65|g/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|7|^^^418/|26.2|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|8|^^^685/|77.4|U/l||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|9|^^^59/|115.0|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|10|^^^698/|9.5|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|11|^^^683/|72|U/l||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|12|^^^798/|190.4|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|13|^^^717/|110.8|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|14|^^^678/|7.37|g/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|15|^^^712/|0.73|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|16|^^^690/|0.73|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I R|17|^^^781/|169.7|mg/dl||N||F|||||P1 C|1|I|0|I L|1|N
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