Steve- Thanks for the reply. I think what I'm trying to say by similar is pattern matching. Essentially, walking through a directory tree starting at a specified root folder, and returning a list of all folders that matches a pattern, in this case, a folder name containing a four digit number representing year and a subdirectory name containing a two digit number representing a month. The matches are grouped together and written into a text file. I hope this helps.
Kind Regards, J Steve Holden wrote: > J wrote: > > Hello Group- > > > > I have limited programming experience, but I'm looking for a generic > > way to search through a root directory for subdirectories with similar > > names, organize and group them by matching their subdirectory path, and > > then output their full paths into a text file. For example, the > > contents of the output text file may look like this: > > > > <root>\Input1\2001\01\ > > <root>\Input2\2001\01\ > > <root>\Input3\2001\01\ > > > > <root>\Input1\2002\03\ > > <root>\Input2\2002\03\ > > <root>\Input3\2002\03\ > > > > <root>\Input2\2005\05\ > > <root>\Input3\2005\05\ > > > > <root>\Input1\2005\12\ > > <root>\Input3\2005\12\ > > > > I tried working with python regular expressions, but so far haven't > > found code that can do the trick. Any help would be greatly > > appreciated. Thanks! > > > Define "similar". > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 > Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com > Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden > Blog of Note: http://holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
