sicvic wrote:
> Since I cant show the actual output file lets say I had an output file
> that looked like this:
>
> aaaaa bbbbb Person: Jimmy
> Current Location: Denver
It may be the output of another process but it's the input file as far
as the parsing code is concerned.
The code below gives the following output, if that's any help ( just
adapting Noah's idea above). Note that it deals with the input as a
single string rather than line by line.
Jimmy
Jimmy.txt
Current Location: Denver
Next Location: Chicago
Sarah
Sarah.txt
Current Location: San Diego
Next Location: Miami
Next Location: New York
>>>
data='''
aaaaa bbbbb Person: Jimmy
Current Location: Denver
Next Location: Chicago
----------------------------------------------
aaaaa bbbbb Person: Sarah
Current Location: San Diego
Next Location: Miami
Next Location: New York
----------------------------------------------
'''
import StringIO
import re
src = StringIO.StringIO(data)
for name in ['Jimmy', 'Sarah']:
exp = "(?s)Person: %s(.*?)--" % name
filename = "%s.txt" % name
info = re.findall(exp, src.getvalue())[0]
print name
print filename
print info
hth
Gerard
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