On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > The assumption Chris made is that the characters XYC do *not* appear > anywhere else in each string. if they do, then you need to write a spec as > to what criteria you can count on for the data. >
Right. I should have mentioned that. Let's hope the OP is sufficiently lucky as to have a separator uniqueness.. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list