In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DataSmash
wrote:
> I need to search and replace 4 words in a text file.
> Below is my attempt at it, but this code appends
> a copy of the text file within itself 4 times.
Because you `write()` the whole text four times to the file. Make the 4
replacements first and rebind `text` to the string with the replacements
each time, and *then* write the result *once* to the file.
> # Search & Replace
> file = open("text.txt", "r")
> text = file.read()
> file.close()
>
> file = open("text.txt", "w")
text = text.replace("Left_RefAddr", "FromLeft")
text = text.replace("Left_NonRefAddr", "ToLeft")
# ...
file.write(text)
file.close()
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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