How to print a part of a string?

Joel Goldstick joel.goldstick at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 08:28:38 EDT 2016


On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:13 AM, durgadevi1
<srirajarajeswaridevikrupa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have another homework problem.
>
> I have a textfile. It contains lines of string.
>
> I am required to only print out a certain part of the string.
>
> For example the textfile contain:
>
> ABC XXXXX NNNNN
> BCD QQQQQ EEEEE
> ABC WWWWW AAAAA
>
>
> I need to print all the parts that come after only ABC.
>
> That means I need to print only XXXXX from the first line and WWWWW from the second line.
>
> I'm not sure of what code to use to achieve that.
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do you know how to open the file and do a for loop to get each line in
the string?

If you do, do you know about this:

>>> s = "ABC XXXXX NNNNN"
>>> s_split = s.split()
>>> s_split
['ABC', 'XXXXX', 'NNNNN']
>>> s_split[0]
'ABC'
>>>



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