Tim Roberts wrote:
DataSmash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a text file that contains thousands of lines and each line is
256 characters long.
This is my task:
For each line in the file, move to the 25th character, if the
character is a "T",
move to the 35th character of the line and read 5 characters from
there.
Capture these 5 characters and write them to a new text file, each 5
characters separated by a comma.
I appreciate your help!
Did you even TRY this? Your task reads like pseudocode that translates
virtually line-for-line to Python code.
fout = open('outputfile.txt','w')
for line in open('inputfile.txt'):
if line[24] == 'T':
fout.write( line[34:39] + ',' )
Should the last line be ...
fout.write(','.join(line[34:39])
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