On Feb 26, 4:14 pm, OdarR <olivier.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 fév, 22:08, qtrimble <qtrim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm a python newbie but I do have some basic scripting experience. I > > need to take the line starting with "wer" and extract the year and day > > of year from that string. I want to be able to add the year and day > > of year from the last line having "wer*" to the lines occurring in > > between "wer*" lines. Python seems suitable to do this and I'm fairly > > certain I can eventually get this to work but I've been hit with a > > very short time frame so I'm looking for any generous help. The data > > below is just a sample. There are well over 500,000 lines that need > > processed. > > > wer1999001 > > 31.2234 82.2367 > > 37.9535 82.3456 > > wer1999002 > > 31.2234 82.2367 > > 37.9535 82.3456 > > did you try something as a working basis ? > > Olivier
Yes but it's very simple - fileIN = open(r"C:\testing.txt", "r") for line in fileIN: year = line[3:7] day = line[7:10] print year, day This is good since i can get the year and day of year into a variable but I haven't gotten any further. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list