If there is a number in the line I want the number otherwise I want a 0 I don't think I can use strip because the lines have no standards
Thanks again Steve On Oct 22, 1:53 pm, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: > On Oct 22, 11:27 am, Steve <zerocostprod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I have some data that I'm performing some analysis on. > > How do I grab the numerical value if it's present and ignore > > otherwise. So in the following example > > I would have assign the following values to my var > > 16 > > 20 > > 2 > > 7 > > 0 > > > In Field6 > > Sample String data is > > sold: 16 > > sold: 20 > > sold: 2 > > sold: 0 > > sold: <storefront> > > 7 > > 0 > > <storefront> > > sold > > null > > So you want a list of any number that > occurs in the file, if it occurs at the > start of the line, or is preceded by a > space character? And you don't want > any duplicates in the list? Is the order > of the results important? That is, would > a result of 16,20,2,0,7 be acceptable? > Or how about 20,2,16,7,0?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
