> > I would like to parse this file by extracting the field id, ra, dec and mjd > for each line. It is > not, however, certain that the width of each value of the field id, ra, dec > or mjd is the same > in each line. Is there a way to do this such that even if there was a line
Regular expressions will do the trick nicely. > where Ra=****** and > MJD=******** was swapped it would be parsed correctly? > Yes, but you'll probably have to look at each line three times or split it into a list and check the elements. > Cheers > Tommy > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > ShawnMilo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
