Hi, I am trying to come up with a more generic scheme to match and replace a series of regex, which look something like this...
19.01,16.38,0.79,1.26,1.00 ! canht_ft(1:npft) 5.0, 4.0, 2.0, 4.0, 1.0 ! lai(1:npft) Ideally match the pattern to the right of the "!" sign (e.g. lai), I would then like to be able to replace one or all of the corresponding numbers on the line. So far I have a rather unsatisfactory solution, any suggestions would be appreciated... The file read in is an ascii file. f = open(fname, 'r') s = f.read() if CANHT: s = re.sub(r"\d+.\d+,\d+.\d+,\d+.\d+,\d+.\d+,\d+.\d+ ! canht_ft", CANHT, s) where CANHT might be CANHT = '115.01,16.38,0.79,1.26,1.00 ! canht_ft' But this involves me passing the entire string. Thanks. Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list