> I want to search the file until I find '/FontName /ACaslonPro-Semibold'
> and then jump forward 7 lines where I expect to find '/FSType 8'. I
> then want to continue searching from *that* point forward for the next
> FontName/FSType pair. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to figure out
> how to do this in Python, although I could do it fairly easily in a
> batch file. Would someone care to enlighten me?
found_fontname = False
font_search = '/FontName /ACaslonPro-Semibold'
type_search = '/FSType 8'
for line in file('foo.txt'):
if font_search in line:
found_fontname = True
if found_fontname and type_search in line:
print 'doing something with %s' % line
# reset to look for font_search
found_fontname = False
or, you could
sed -n '/\/FontName \/ACaslonPro-Semibold/,/\/FSType 8/{/\/FSType
8/p}'
You omit what you want to do with the results when you find
them...or what should happen when they both appear on the same
line (though you hint that they're a couple lines apart, you
don't define this as a "this is always the case" sort of scenario)
-tkc
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