Shawn, Tim ,Jay
many thanks,
It looks like there are many ways this problem can be approached
either by using regex or a tokens
Tim I'm not familiar with your solution, but will learn about that method also
Jay, what do you mean by regex comes with a lot of overhead?
--Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Shawn Milochik
Sent: Mon 8/20/2007 3:07 PM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: reading a line in file
Hopefully this will help (using your input file)
#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
buildinfo = "input.txt"
input = open(buildinfo, 'r')
regex = re.compile(r"^\s*build.number=(\d+)\s*$")
for line in input:
if re.search(regex, line):
print line
buildNum = re.sub(r"^\s*build.number=(\d+)\s*$", "\\1", line)
print line
print buildNum
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