Extract Text Table From File

[Ramchandra Apte]

On Monday, 27 August 2012 15:42:14 UTC+5:30, Laszlo Nagy  wrote:
> On 2012-08-27 11:53, Huso wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> >
> 
> > I am trying to extract some text table data from a log file. I am trying different methods, but I don't seem to get anything to work. I am kind of new to python as well. Hence, appreciate if someone could help me out.
> 
> 
> 
> #
> 
> # Write test data to test.txt
> 
> #
> 
> 
> 
> data = """
> 
> ROUTES TRAFFIC RESULTS, LSR
> 
> TRG  MP   DATE   TIME
> 
>   37  17 120824   0000
> 
> 
> 
> R         TRAFF   NBIDS   CCONG   NDV  ANBLO   MHTIME  NBANSW
> 
> AABBCCO     6.4     204     0.0   115    1.0    113.4     144
> 
> AABBCCI     3.0     293           115    1.0     37.0     171
> 
> DDEEFFO     0.2       5     0.0    59    0.0    107.6       3
> 
> EEFFEEI     0.0       0            59    0.0      0.0       0
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> HHGGFFO     0.0       0     0.0    30    0.0      0.0       0
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> HHGGFFI     0.3      15            30    0.0     62.2       4
> 
> END
> 
> """
> 
> fout = open("test.txt","wb+")
> 
> fout.write(data)
> 
> fout.close()
> 
> 
> 
> #
> 
> # This is how you iterate over a file and process its lines
> 
> #
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> fin = open("test.txt","r")
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> for line in fin:
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>      # This is one possible way to extract values.
> 
>      values = line.strip().split()
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>      print values
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> This will print:
> 
> 
> 
> []
> 
> ['ROUTES', 'TRAFFIC', 'RESULTS,', 'LSR']
> 
> ['TRG', 'MP', 'DATE', 'TIME']
> 
> ['37', '17', '120824', '0000']
> 
> []
> 
> ['R', 'TRAFF', 'NBIDS', 'CCONG', 'NDV', 'ANBLO', 'MHTIME', 'NBANSW']
> 
> ['AABBCCO', '6.4', '204', '0.0', '115', '1.0', '113.4', '144']
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> ['AABBCCI', '3.0', '293', '115', '1.0', '37.0', '171']
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> ['DDEEFFO', '0.2', '5', '0.0', '59', '0.0', '107.6', '3']
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> ['EEFFEEI', '0.0', '0', '59', '0.0', '0.0', '0']
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> ['HHGGFFO', '0.0', '0', '0.0', '30', '0.0', '0.0', '0']
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> ['HHGGFFI', '0.3', '15', '30', '0.0', '62.2', '4']
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> ['END']
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> The "values" list in the last line contains these values. This will work 
> 
> only if you don't have spaces in your values. Otherwise you can use 
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> regular expressions to parse a line. See here:
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> 
> 
> http://docs.python.org/library/re.html
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> 
> 
the csv module should be used for this not regex
> Since you did not give any specification on your file format, it would 
> 
> be hard to give a concrete program that parses your file(s)
> 
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 
>      Laszlo