a simple string question

[Wildemar Wildenburger]

vedrandekovic at v-programs.com wrote:
>> If I understand you correctly you want to replace ";" by ";\n" and ":"
>> by ":\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t".
>> Well guess what? The replace() method does just this. Have a read:
>> <URL:http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html>
>>     
> No,that's not what I need...
> When this function detect ";" or ":" ,it must append character "\n" or
> "\n\t" ahead ":" or ";" another e.g
>
> 1) text="Hello world;Hello:Hello2"
>
> 2) When function detect ";" or ":" it must append character "\n" or "\n
> \t" ahead ":" or ";", so that must look like this:
>
> NEW TEXT :  "Hello world;\nHello:\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\nHello2"
>
>   
Isn't that what I said?

Please note that appending "\n" to ";" is the very same thing as 
replacing ";" with ";\n".

Also note that the your description of the desired behavior does not 
match your example. You say "append "\n\t" after ":"", but thats not 
what happens in your example. There you append "\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n" 
instead of "\n\t". That is confusing to me. Can you explain?

/W