Retrieve A Data In A File

[davalend]

1 5510/2 if then Date = 03/17/1999 03/18/1999

2 2490/1 if DA0=100 then DA1 = 112

3 4728/2 if F2=.AP then F1 = .S .AS

i have this data in a txt file. now i need to retrieve 5510/2, 2490/1, 4728/2 ONLY. how do i do that in python?

[davalend]

read = open('sample.txt', 'r')

a = read.readlines()

arr = []

for ruleline in a:

for ruledata in ruleline[2:9]:

arr.append(ruledata)

print arr,

what is wrong with this code? it prints ['5'] ['5', '5'] ['5', '5', '1'] ['5', '5', '1', '0'] ['5', '5', '1', '0', '/'] ['5', '5', '1', '0', '/', '2'] ['5', '5', '1', '0', '/', '2', ' '] .....

what I want is 5510/2, not seperating them...

pls guide me.

Edited January 17, 2006 by davalend

[Hai-Etlik]

Well from the look of it, breaking the string on whitespace and taking the second element will do what you want.

[davalend]

Sorry, i dont get what u mean ...

which part of my coding is wrong? and how shd it be change?

[shanenin]

as to the method Hai-Etlik mentioned

>>> test = "1 5510/2 if then Date = 03/17/1999 03/18/1999"
>>> test_splitted = test.split()
>>> print test_splitted
['1', '5510/2', 'if', 'then', 'Date', '=', '03/17/1999', '03/18/1999']
>>> print test_splitted[1]
5510/2

or as one line

"1 5510/2 if then Date = 03/17/1999 03/18/1999".split()[1]

Edited January 17, 2006 by shanenin

[davalend]

tks so much for the quick reply.

ya. i done it

[davalend]

read = open('rules.txt', 'r')

a = read.readlines()

arr = []

for ruleline in a:

arr.append(ruleline.split()[1])

print arr

-----------------------------------

['5510/2']

['5510/2', '2490/1']

['5510/2', '2490/1', '4728/2']

['5510/2', '2490/1', '4728/2', '1940/1']

['5510/2', '2490/1', '4728/2', '1940/1', '1940/1']

['5510/2', '2490/1', '4728/2', '1940/1', '1940/1', '5510/3']

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it keeps repeating. how come?

[shanenin]

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do. I think the problem is you have your print statement in the loop. So everytime it loops it is printing. Just move you print statement past the loop

read = open('rules.txt', 'r')
a = read.readlines()

arr = []
for ruleline in a:
	arr.append(ruleline.split()[1])

print arr

[shanenin]

since python is sensitive to whitespace(indentation), it would help if you placed your code in tags. It would make your code easier to read on this forum, for example:

[c0de]

for in in test:

print f

while True:

print g

[/c0de]

in my example I used "0" in place of "o". make sure you just use "o"

Edited January 17, 2006 by shanenin

[davalend]

hmm....

because i am using this number in "a" in a formula.

for example: x = a * 100

so x will return me a list of difference answer with difference input of "a"

get what i mean?

[Hai-Etlik]

hmm....

because i am using this number in "a" in a formula.

for example: x = a * 100

so x will return me a list of difference answer with difference input of "a"

get what i mean?

No, I'm afraid it made no sense whatsoever.

[jcl]

No, I'm afraid it made no sense whatsoever.

It sounds like he discovered variables.