In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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)
.
.
.
!? That seems to me confusingly far from a working solution,
at least in comparison to
recno_idex = the_line[0:10]
client_idx = the_line[10:11]
...
What am I missing?
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