On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:34:43 -0700, Starriol wrote: > I'm trying to search for several strings, which I have in a .txt file > line by line, on another file. > So the idea is, take input.txt and search for each line in that file in > another file, let's call it rules.txt. > > So far, I've been able to do this, to search for individual strings: > > [code]import re > > shakes = open("output.csv", "r") > > for line in shakes: > if re.match("STRING", line): > print line,[/code] > > How can I change this to input the strings to be searched from another > file? > > So far I haven't been able to.
read all the search strings into a list while there's data in shakes read a line from shakes for each string in search string list search the line from shakes for the search string -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list