Re: find, replace and save string in ascii file

2006-08-23 Thread Roberto Bonvallet
peter wrote: > Example (one block in ascii file): > $ > NAME='ALFA' > CODE='x' > $ > > There are many similar blocks in the file with different NAMEs and > different CODEs. What I'm looking for is a script that searchs through > whole file and finds

Re: find, replace and save string in ascii file

2006-08-23 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Wednesday 23/8/2006 09:48, peter wrote: What I did is that I can find all strings which I need, next I change these strings based on CODE, but what I can't is to replace old string with new one, on the same position in the file. It always writes new string at the end of the file. Here is my c

Re: find, replace and save string in ascii file

2006-08-23 Thread Andy Terrel
Take your code, pretend it is in file: $ NAME='ALFA' CODE='x' $ a python functions could be: def change(filename): fp = open(filename, 'r') lines = fp.readlines() fp.close() for i in range(len(lines)): if lines[i].find('NA

Re: find, replace and save string in ascii file

2006-08-23 Thread peter
Thank you for your advice. I'm not so good in python yet, so could you be so kind and write me a piece of code for the part If you want the output to be written to same file just 'move' this temperory file to the input file once you are done. Because that's what I don't know how to do it. How

Re: find, replace and save string in ascii file

2006-08-23 Thread Amit Khemka
On 23 Aug 2006 05:48:37 -0700, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm looking for an advice. > > Example (one block in ascii file): > $ > NAME='ALFA' > CODE='x' > $ > > There are many similar blocks in the file with different NAMEs and

find, replace and save string in ascii file

2006-08-23 Thread peter
Hello all, I'm looking for an advice. Example (one block in ascii file): $ NAME='ALFA' CODE='x' $ There are many similar blocks in the file with different NAMEs and different CODEs. What I'm looking for is a script that searchs through whole file a