[Tutor] File parse

[Tiger12506]

> I'm trying to parse a file and extract 'src=172.16.148.27 dst=10.52.10.10'
> out of each line that contains 10.52.10.10, but get lost with writing the
> information and am not sure if I should .re at all.

Could you send a few lines of "in.txt"? I can help better.

> import re
>
> infile = open("in.txt","r")
> outfile = open("out.txt", "w")
>
> for line in infile:
>    re.match('src=*10.52.10.10')

This will not help you whatsoever. You will have to check the return of 
re.match. Also, I suspect that your re pattern could use some tweaking. 
Those lines from your file?