Parsing Text file

Tobiah toby at tobiah.org
Tue Jul 2 15:50:23 EDT 2013


On 07/02/2013 12:30 PM, sas429s at gmail.com wrote:
> Somemore can be anything for instance:
>
> Sometext
> mail
> maskit
>
> Sometext
> rupee
> dollar
> maskit
>
> and so on..
>
> Is there a way I can achieve this?

How do we know whether we have Sometext?
If it's really just a literal 'Sometext', then
just print that when you hit maskit.

Otherwise:


for line in open('file.txt').readlines():
	
	if is_sometext(line):
		memory = line

	if line == 'maskit':
		print memory





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