I have read a text file using the command
lines = myfile.readlines()
and now I want to seach those lines for a particular string. I was hoping there was a way to "find" that string in a similar way as searching simply a simple string. I want to do something like
lines.find.('my particular string')
Is there a module that already exists that allows me to do this or will I have to created my own method?
file.readlines() returns a list of lines. You can either call find on each
element in this list, like:
for line in myfile.readlines() :
if line.find('my particular string') :
do_something()of just read in the whole file, if you are not interested in the particular
line, where 'my particular string occurs':
myfile.read().find('my particular string')Cheers,
- harold -
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