[Tutor] String or Re

[Terry Carroll]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Que Prime wrote:

> I'm working on the following code to read a log file and output lines
> containing '10.52.10.10' but am unsure of whether to use a regular
> expression or string to achive this.

> for line in infile:
>     if line #contains '10.52.10.10':
>         outfile.write(line)

I wouldn't go with regular expressions here.

Try this:

for line in infile:
   if line.find("10.52.10.11") != -1:
      outfile.write(line)