text formatting question

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 01:53:41 EST 2013


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:49 PM, idy <idhayham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Error = 'XYC.12345455LOcation/user/data/MYGLE-INGXYC.23344566LOcation/user/data/INGE-FTYXYC.22334566LOcation/user/data/GETN-YUNXYC.12345455LOcation/user/data/MYGLE-INGXYC.1111111LOcation/user/data/INGE-FTYXYC.3333333LOcation/user/data/GETN-YUN'
>
> I need to write this to mail body as with following format in multiple lines
>
> XYC.12345455-LOcation/user/data/MYGLE-ING
> XYC.23344566-LOcation/user/data/INGE-FTY
> XYC.22334566LOcation/user/data/GETN-YUN
> XYC.12345455LOcation/user/data/MYGLE-ING
> XYC.1111111LOcation/user/data/INGE-FTY
> XYC.3333333LOcation/user/data/GETN-YUN

You want to break the line immediately before the 'XYC'? That's quite
easy; the line break is a character like any other, and can be used in
a replace() call:

formatted_error = Error.replace("XYC","\nXYC")

If that's not the case, can you clarify what you need to do to divide it?

Chris Angelico



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