splitting file/content into lines based on regex termination

[bruce]

update...

  dat=re.compile("<br>#(\d+) / (\d+)#(\d+)#").split(s)

almost works..

except i get
m = 10116#000#C S#S#100##001##DAY#Fund of Computing#Barrett,
William#3#MWF<br>#08:00am<br>#08:50am<br>#3718 HBLL
m = 45
m = 58
m = 0
m = 10116#000#C S#S#100##002##DAY#Fund of Computing#Barrett,
William#3#MWF<br>#09:00am<br>#09:50am<br>#3718 HBLL
m = 9
m = 58
m = 0

and what i want is:
m = 10116#000#C S#S#100##001##DAY#Fund of Computing#Barrett,
William#3#MWF<br>#08:00am<br>#08:50am<br>#3718 HBLL 45 / 58,0
m = 10116#000#C S#S#100##002##DAY#Fund of Computing#Barrett,
William#3#MWF<br>#09:00am<br>#09:50am<br>#3718 HBLL 9 / 58,0


so i'd have the results of the "compile/regex process" to be added to
the split lines

thoughts/comments??

thanks



On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:15 PM, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi.
>
> got a test file with the sample content listed below:
>
> the content is one long string, and needs to be split into separate lines
>
> I'm thinking the pattern to split on should be a kind of regex like::
> <br>#45 / 58#0#
> or
> <br>#9 / 58#0
> but i have no idea how to make this happen!!
>
> if i read the content into a buf -> s
>
> import re
> dat = re.compile("what goes here??").split(s)
>
> --i'm not sure what goes in the compile() to get the process to work..
>
> thoughts/comments would be helpful.
>
> thanks
>
>
> test dat::
> 10116#000#C S#S#100##001##DAY#Fund of Computing#Barrett,
> William#3#MWF<br>#08:00am<br>#08:50am<br>#3718 HBLL <br>#45 /
> 58#0#10116#000#C S#S#100##002##DAY#Fund of Computing#Barrett,
> William#3#MWF<br>#09:00am<br>#09:50am<br>#3718 HBLL <br>#9 /
> 58#0#10178#000#C S#S#124##001##DAY#Computer Systems#Roper,
> Paul#3#MWF<br>#11:00am<br>#11:50am<br>#1170 TMCB <br>#41 /
> 145#0#10178#000#C S#S#124##002##DAY#Computer Systems#Roper,
> Paul#3#MWF<br>#2:00pm<br>#2:50pm<br>#1170 TMCB <br>#40 /
> 120#0#01489#002#C S#S#142##001##DAY#Intro to Computer
> Programming#Burton, Robert <div class='instructors'>Seppi, Kevin<br
> /></div><span