Mark Harrison wrote: > What is the best way to process a text file of delimited strings? > I've got a file where strings are quoted with at-signs, @like [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > At-signs in the string are represented as doubled @@.
Have you taken a look at the csv module yet? No guarantees, but it may just work. You'd have to set delimiter to ' ' and quotechar to '@'. You may need to manually handle the double-@ thing, but why don't you see how close you can get with csv? > @rv@ 2 @db.locks@ @//depot/hello.txt@ @mh@ @mh@ 1 1 44 > @pv@ 0 @db.changex@ 44 44 @mh@ @mh@ 1118875308 0 @ :@@: :@@@@: @ > > (this is from a perforce journal file, btw) -- Paul McNett http://paulmcnett.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
