On Jun 5, 3:50 am, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Marc, Thanks. Tim, Thanks for the code. It's a easy task IF you know what to look for. I didn't. Carl, I'm not a student. Was just looking for some ideas. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
