DataSmash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a text file that contains thousands of lines and each line is >256 characters long. > >This is my task: >For each line in the file, move to the 25th character, if the >character is a "T", >move to the 35th character of the line and read 5 characters from >there. >Capture these 5 characters and write them to a new text file, each 5 >characters separated by a comma. > >I appreciate your help!
Did you even TRY this? Your task reads like pseudocode that translates virtually line-for-line to Python code. fout = open('outputfile.txt','w') for line in open('inputfile.txt'): if line[24] == 'T': fout.write( line[34:39] + ',' ) -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list