Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
This is great! Everything works perfectly. Even the double-@ thing is handled by the default quotechar handling. Thanks again, Mark -- Mark Harrison Pixar Animation Studios -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
