On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:13 AM, durgadevi1 <srirajarajeswaridevikr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have another homework problem. > > I have a textfile. It contains lines of string. > > I am required to only print out a certain part of the string. > > For example the textfile contain: > > ABC XXXXX NNNNN > BCD QQQQQ EEEEE > ABC WWWWW AAAAA > > > I need to print all the parts that come after only ABC. > > That means I need to print only XXXXX from the first line and WWWWW from the > second line. > > I'm not sure of what code to use to achieve that. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
do you know how to open the file and do a for loop to get each line in the string? If you do, do you know about this: >>> s = "ABC XXXXX NNNNN" >>> s_split = s.split() >>> s_split ['ABC', 'XXXXX', 'NNNNN'] >>> s_split[0] 'ABC' >>> -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list