regex line by line over file

[James Smith]

On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:23:29 PM UTC-4, James Smith wrote:
> I can't get this to work.
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> It runs but there is no output when I try it on a file.
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> #!/usr/bin/python
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> import os
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> import sys
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> import re
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> from datetime import datetime
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> #logDir = '/nfs/projects/equinox/platformTools/RTLG/RTLG_logs';
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> #os.chdir( logDir );
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> programName = sys.argv[0]
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> fileName = sys.argv[1]
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> #pattern = re.compile('\s*\\"SHELF-.*,SC,.*,:\\"Log Collection In Progress\\"')
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> re.M
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> p = re.compile('^\s*\"SHELF-.*,SC,.*,:\\\"Log Collection In Progress\\\"')
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> l = '    "SHELF-17:LOG_COLN_IP,SC,03-25,01-18-58,NEND,NA,,,:\"Log Collection In Progress\",NONE:1700000035-6364-1048,:YEAR=2014,MODE=NONE"'
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> 
> # this works :-)
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> m = p.match( l )
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> if m:
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>     print( l )
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> 
> # this doesn't match anything (or the if doesn't work) :-(
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> with open(fileName) as f:
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>     for line in f:
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>         # debug code (print the line without adding a linefeed)
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>         # sys.stdout.write( line )
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>         if p.match(line):
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>             print(line)
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> The test file just has one line:
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>     "SHELF-17:LOG_COLN_IP,SC,03-25,01-18-58,NEND,NA,,,:\"Log Collection In Progress\",NONE:1700000035-6364-1048,:YEAR=2014,MODE=NONE"

I tried the re.M in the compile and that didn't help.