I am trying to locate all lines in a suite of files with quoted strings of
particular lengths. A search pattern like r'".{15}"' finds 15-character
strings very nicely. But I have some very long ones, and a pattern like
r'".{272}"' fails miserably, even though I know I have at least one
272-character string.
In the short term, I can resort to locating the character positions of the
quotes, but this seemed like such an elegant solution I hate to see it not
work. The program is given below (sans imports), in case someone can spot
something I'm overlooking:
# Example usage: search.py *.txt \".{15}\"
filePattern = sys.argv[1]
searchPattern = sys.argv[2]
cpat = re.compile(searchPattern)
for fn in glob.glob(filePattern):
f = open(fn, "r")
if f:
lineNumber = 0
for line in f:
lineNumber += 1
m = cpat.search(line)
if m is not None:
print fn, "(", lineNumber, ")", line
f.close()
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