On Jun 4, 5:30 pm, DataSmash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi group, > 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.
Your professor possibly reads comp.lang.python, and if so, is likely to know how to track you down with your IP address. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list