On Sat, 16 May 2015 06:28:19 -0700, bruceg113355 wrote: > I have a string that contains 10 million characters. > > The string is formatted as: > > "0000001 : some hexadecimal text ... \n 0000002 : some hexadecimal text > ... \n 0000003 : some hexadecimal text ... \n ... > 0100000 : some hexadecimal text ... \n 0100001 : some hexadecimal text > ... \n" > > and I need the string to look like: > > "some hexadecimal text ... \n some hexadecimal text ... \n some > hexadecimal text ... \n ... > some hexadecimal text ... \n some hexadecimal text ... \n"
Looks to me as if you have a 10 Mbyte encoded file with line numbers as ascii text and you're trying to strip the line numbers before decoding the file. Are you looking for a one-off solution, or do you have a lot of these files? If you have a lot of files to process, you could try using something like sed. sed -i.old 's/^\d+ : //' *.ext -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
