Parsing a text file for information

[John Machin]

On Sun, 19 May 2002 00:52:06 GMT, "Colin Meeks" <colin at meeks.ca>
wrote:

>I have a text file that is several magabytes in size and would like to
>strip it of certain information. The information I want is always
>preceeded by
>    GETTEXT=
>and is in itself 18 characters long.  Is there a regular expression I
>could use to simplify the task.

regex = r'GETTEXT=.{18,18}'
# GETTEXT= followed by 18 characters other than newline

You may want to make this tighter than "characters other than
newline".

You said you wanted to strip the info that is preceded by GETTEXT=.
Are you sure you don't want to strip the GETTEXT= also????