search for a string?

[Stephen Hansen]

    Depends on how you have the document opened/loaded...

    If its all in one string you could just use:
string.find(Document,Substring)
    [Document.find(Substring) in py1.6]

    If its in a list, a la readlines? Hm.
string.find(string.join(Document),Substring)
    ["".join(Document).find(Substring) in py1.6]

    Etcetc..you could cycle through a file or do whatever you wanted to..

    As for inserting the contents of another file, well, something like:

    OldString = File.read() + OldString

    I perfer, though: OldString = "%s %s" % (File.read(),OldString)

--S
Shengquan Liang <gt2558b at prism.gatech.edu> wrote in message
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> how do i search for a string in a document
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> and inseart content of another file before
> that string?
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