>I sent a sample of the file "testin.txt" in the last email. Here are the > lines themsevles:
Oh! Sorry. I didn't look in the attachments - I expected the lines in the email. My mistake. Try this ~~ :-P ############################## import re infile = open("testin.txt","r") outfile = open("out.txt","w") patt = re.compile(r".*src=([\d\.]*) dst=([\d\.]*).*") for line in infile: m = patt.match(line) if m: outfile.write("src=%s dst=%s\n"%m.groups()) infile.close() outfile.close() ############################# Seeing the input file makes me wonder if regular expressions is over kill in this instance. JS _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor