On 5/06/2006 2:51 AM, Baoqiu Cui wrote:
> John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Uh-oh.
>>
>> Try this:
>>
> pat = re.compile('(?<=abc\n).*?(?=xyz\n)', re.DOTALL)
> re.sub(pat, '', linestr)
>> 'blahfubarabc\nxyz\nxyzzy'
>
> This regexp still has a problem. It may remove the lines b
John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Uh-oh.
>
> Try this:
>
pat = re.compile('(?<=abc\n).*?(?=xyz\n)', re.DOTALL)
re.sub(pat, '', linestr)
> 'blahfubarabc\nxyz\nxyzzy'
This regexp still has a problem. It may remove the lines between two
lines like 'aaabc' and 'xxxyz' (and also rem
Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I wish to delete lines that are in between 'abc' and
>> 'xyz' and print the rest of the lines. Which is the best
>> way to do it?
>
>sed -n -e'1,/abc/p' -e'/xyz/,$p' file.txt
>
>which is pretty straight-forward.
While it looks neat, it will not work
>> I don't think that's what you really meant ^ 2
Right! That was very buggy. That's what I get for posting past 1 AM :-(.
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> I wish to delete lines that are in between 'abc' and
> 'xyz' and print the rest of the lines. Which is the best
> way to do it?
While this *is* the python list, you don't specify whether
this is the end goal, or whether it's part of a larger
program. If it *is* the end goal (namely, you just wan
bruno at modulix wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
(snip)
>
> Don't know if it's better for your actual use case, but this avoids
> reading up the whole file:
> def skip(iterable, skipfrom, skipuntil):
> """ example usage :
> >>> f = open("/path/to/my/file.txt")
> >>> for line in s
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
(snip)
> to print to a file instead of stdout, just replace the print line with a
> f.write call.
>
Or redirect stdout to a file when calling the program !-)
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p in '[EMAIL PROTEC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
> say i have a text file
>
> line1
> line2
> line3
> line4
> line5
> line6
> abc
> line8 <---to be delete
> line9 <---to be delete
> line10 <---to be delete
> line11 <---to be delete
> line12 <---to be delete
> line13 <---to be delete
> xyz
> line15
> line16
> lin
On 12/05/2006 6:11 PM, Ravi Teja wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> hi
>> say i have a text file
>>
>> line1
[snip]
>> line6
>> abc
>> line8 <---to be delete
[snip]
>> line13 <---to be delete
>> xyz
>> line15
[snip]
>> line18
>>
>> I wish to delete lines that are in between 'abc' and 'xyz' and pr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> hi
> say i have a text file
>
> line1
> line2
> line3
> line4
> line5
> line6
> abc
> line8 <---to be delete
> line9 <---to be delete
> line10 <---to be delete
> line11 <---to be delete
> line12 <---to be delete
> line13 <---to b
wrote:
> hi
> say i have a text file
>
> line1
> line2
> line3
> line4
> line5
> line6
> abc
> line8 <---to be delete
> line9 <---to be delete
> line10 <---to be delete
> line11 <---to be delete
> line12 <---to be delete
> line13 <---to be delete
> xyz
> line15
> line16
> line17
> line18
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
> say i have a text file
>
> line1
> line2
> line3
> line4
> line5
> line6
> abc
> line8 <---to be delete
> line9 <---to be delete
> line10 <---to be delete
> line11 <---to be delete
> line12 <---to be delete
> line13 <---to be delete
> xyz
> line15
> line16
> lin
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