Text Processing

[Yigit Turgut]

On Dec 21, 2:01 am, Alexander Kapps <alex.ka... at web.de> wrote:
> On 20.12.2011 22:04, Nick Dokos wrote:
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> >>> I have a text file containing such data ;
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> >>>          A                B                C
> >>> -------------------------------------------------------
> >>> -2.0100e-01    8.000e-02    8.000e-05
> >>> -2.0000e-01    0.000e+00   4.800e-04
> >>> -1.9900e-01    4.000e-02    1.600e-04
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> >>> But I only need Section B, and I need to change the notation to ;
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> >>> 8.000e-02 = 0.08
> >>> 0.000e+00 = 0.00
> >>> 4.000e-02 = 0.04
> > Does it have to be python? If not, I'd go with something similar to
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> >     sed 1,2d foo.data | awk '{printf("%.2f\n", $2);}'
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> Why sed and awk:
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> awk 'NR>2 {printf("%.2f\n", $2);}' data.txt
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> And in Python:
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> f = open("data.txt")
> f.readline()    # skip header
> f.readline()    # skip header
> for line in f:
>      print "%02s" % float(line.split()[1])

@Jerome ; Your suggestion provided floating point error, it might need
some slight modificiation.

@Nick ; Sorry mate, it needs to be in Python. But I noted solution in
case if I need for another case.

@Alexander ; Works as expected.

Thank you all for the replies.