Parsing Text file

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Tue Jul 2 16:12:55 EDT 2013


On 2013-07-02, Tobiah <toby at tobiah.org> wrote:
> 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

Tobiah's solution fits what little we can make of your problem.

My feeling is that you've simplified your question a little too
much in hopes that it would help us provide a better solution.
Can you provide more context? 

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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