On 7 August 2010 13:45, TGW wrote:
>> You can test if one item in your list begins with example like:
>> ' example125 oo3 3456'.lstrip()[:7].lower() == 'example'
>
> I think I need to use regex here. Perhaps you will agree.
You could but you don't have to, consider this.
r = '1234|Avail|53|Potat
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:26 AM, David Hutto wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
>>
>> "TGW" wrote
>>>
>>> What I want to output is:
>>> 12345|some text|some more text|example|example32423
>>> 11223|more text|and more|example|example455667
>>>
>>> So column 4 is where the c
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
>
> "TGW" wrote
>>
>> What I want to output is:
>> 12345|some text|some more text|example|example32423
>> 11223|more text|and more|example|example455667
>>
>> So column 4 is where the change occurs, but only if the beginning
>> of the string in co
"TGW" wrote
What I want to output is:
12345|some text|some more text|example|example32423
11223|more text|and more|example|example455667
So column 4 is where the change occurs, but only if the beginning
of the string in column 4 =~ /^example/i # and it should be case
insensitive
reader
> You can test if one item in your list begins with example like:
> ' example125 oo3 3456'.lstrip()[:7].lower() == 'example'
I think I need to use regex here. Perhaps you will agree.
Input file:
1119|Avail|53|Potato Chips
1234|Avail|53|Potato Chips and salse
1399|Avail|53|potato chips
1445|Avail|
On 7 August 2010 04:35, TGW wrote:
> I have a pipe delimited text file with 5 columns which looks like this:
> 12345|some text|some more text|example125 oo3 3456|example32423
> 11223|more text|and more|example/73d 77665|example455667
> 12677|text|more|anotherexample 123|anotherexample45
>
> What I
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:35 PM, TGW wrote:
> I have a pipe delimited text file with 5 columns which looks like this:
> 12345|some text|some more text|example125 oo3 3456|example32423
> 11223|more text|and more|example/73d 77665|example455667
> 12677|text|more|anotherexample 123|anotherexample45
>
I have a pipe delimited text file with 5 columns which looks like this:
12345|some text|some more text|example125 oo3 3456|example32423
11223|more text|and more|example/73d 77665|example455667
12677|text|more|anotherexample 123|anotherexample45
What I want to output is:
12345|some text|some more t
