what do you mean by slurp the entire file?
I'm trying to use regular expressions because line by line parsing will be too slow. And example file would have somewhere in the realm of 6 million lines of code.

Brandon L. Harris

Rodrick Brown wrote:
Slurp the entire file into a string and pick out the fields you need.

Sent from my iPhone 4.

On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Brandon Harris <brandon.har...@reelfx.com> wrote:

I'm trying to read in and parse an ascii type file that contains information 
that can span several lines.
Example:

createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_globalSmooth";
  setAttr ".tan" 9;
  setAttr -s 4 ".ktv[0:3]"  101 0 163 0 169 0 201 0;
  setAttr -s 4 ".kit[3]"  10;
  setAttr -s 4 ".kot[3]"  10;
createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_res";
  setAttr ".tan" 9;
  setAttr ".ktv[0]"  103 0;
  setAttr ".kot[0]"  5;
createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_faceRig";
  setAttr ".tan" 9;
  setAttr ".ktv[0]"  103 0;
  setAttr ".kot[0]"  5;

I'm wanting to grab the information out in chunks, so

createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_faceRig";
  setAttr ".tan" 9;
  setAttr ".ktv[0]"  103 0;
  setAttr ".kot[0]"  5;

would be what my regex would grab.
I'm currently only able to grab out the first line and part of the second line, 
but no more.
regex is as follows

my_regexp = re.compile("createNode\ animCurve.*\n[\t*setAttr.*\n]*")

I've run several variations of this, but none return me all of the expected 
information.

Is there something special that needs to be done to have the regexp grab any 
number of the setAttr lines without specification?

Brandon L. Harris


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