zaheer.ag...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi > How do i read a file in Python and search a particular pattern > like I have a file char.txt which has
> Mango=sweet > Sky=blue > I want to get the strings sweet and blue,How to do this..? If your entire file consists of such key=value pairs you may want to properly parse them: for lne in infile: line = line.rstrip() key, value = line.split('=') if key in ('Mango', 'Sky'): print value Or something like that - details depend on what exactly your criteria for picking the values are, of course. cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Lehrstuhl f. Genomorientierte Bioinformatik Technische Universität München http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list