Thanks! That helped a lot! Now, lets say that I just want to display one or just a few of the items and not the whole line. For example, the text file contains the following:
red blue yello green purple brown If the program searches for blue, i just want it to print blue, not the whole line. If i ask it to find blue and brown, i just want it to return those two values. Andrew Robert wrote: > Saint Malo wrote: > > I am new to programming, and I've chosen python to start with. I wrote > > a simple program that asks several questions and assings each one of > > them a variable via raw_input command. I then combined all the > > variables into one like this a = b + c + d. After this I wrote these > > values to a file. What I want to do now is be able to search through > > the file for any data in there. Is this possible? > > > Most certainly. > > It depends on how you want to treat the read data. > > for example > > > # Open a file for read > file=open(r'test.txt','r') > > # Read each line in file > for line in file > > #Search each line > if "A" in line: > > print "I found A" > > file.close() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
