On Nov 17, 3:24 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > len wrote: > > Files are fixed format no field delimiters, fields are position and > > length records are terminated by newline. > > Assuming no COMPUTATIONAL fields, it should be easy enough to split each line > up into fixed-length pieces, e.g. assuming a simple example > > 01 Sample-Record. > 02 Field-1 pic XXX. > 02 Field-2 pic XXXX. > 02 Field-3 pic XXXXX. > > then a Python sequence that read one line's worth of fields might be > > line = infile.read() > (field_1, field_2, field_3) = (line[0:3], line[3:7], line[7:12])
Thank you for the suggestion. I have done what you have suggested and if your interested you can take a look at the code in my post titled; 'Newbie code review of parsing program Please' Just shows great minds run in the same gutter;) Len -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
