* RyanL wrote (on 8/27/2007 10:59 AM):
> I'm a newbie! I have a non-delimited data file that I'd like to
> convert to delimited.
>
> Example...
> Line in non-delimited file:
> 0139725635999992000010100534+42050-102800FM-15+1198KAIA
>
> Should be:
> 0139,725635,99999,2000,01,01,00,53,4,+42050,-102800,FM-15,+1198,KAIA
>
> What is the best way to go about this? I've looked all over for
> examples, help, suggestions, but have not found much. CSV module
> doesn't seem to do exactly what I want. Maybe I'm just missing
> something or not using the correct terminology in my searches. Any
> assistance is greatly appreaciated! Using Python 2.4
>
Since you have to know, a priori, how to break the input string I
assume that these fields are of fixed length. You can use the following
to do what you want:
>>> a="0139725635999992000010100534+42050-102800FM-15+1198KAIA"
>>> print "%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s" %
(a[0:4],a[4:10],a[10:15],a[15:19],a[19:21],a[21:23],a[23:25],
a[25:27],a[27],a[28:34],a[34:41],a[41:46],a[46:51],a[51:])
which results in the following output:
0139,725635,99999,2000,01,01,00,53,4,+42050,-102800,FM-15,+1198,KAIA
Mark
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