regexes are common across a lot of languages, even Java has them.
Though the pain that would be I daren't not imagine. So the syntax is
familiar, whereas string methods may not be.
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:00:52 +0100, Wolfram Kraus
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> Ron Nixon wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what I've done wrong in this
> > script.
> >
> > I'm trying to get only the lines that start with
> > "This" for a text file.
> >
> > Here's what I wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>>import re
> >>>>f = open('c:/lines.txt').readlines()
> >>>>for line in f:
> >
> > match = re.search('^This',f)
> > if line == match:
> > print match
> >
> >
> Pardon my ignorance, but why is everybody fond of regexps ;-) ? Are they
> faster? What about good ol' startswith():
> http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html#l2h-204
> Untested:
>
> f = open('c:/lines.txt').readlines()
> for line in f:
> if line.startswith('This'):
> print line # Or whatever match is, no regexp-expert here, sorry
>
> Wondering,
> Wolfram
>
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