I hope this is the right place to ask, but I am trying to come up with
a way to parse each line of a file. Unfortunately, the file is neither
comma, nor tab, nor space delimited. Rather, the character locations
imply what field it is.
For example:
The first ten characters would be the record number, the next
character is the client type, the next ten characters are a volume,
and the next three are order type, and the last character would be an
optional type depending on the order type.
Sounds like you could do something like
recno_idx = slice(0,10)
client_idx = slice(10, 11)
volume_idx = slice(11,11+10)
order_type_idx = slice(11+10, 11+10+3)
out = file('out.txt', 'w')
for line in file('in.txt'):
out.write(','.join([
s[recno_idx],
s[client_idx],
s[volume_idx],
s[order_type_idx],
s[11+10+3:],
]))
out.close()
-tkc
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