On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Nick Burgess<burgess.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks everyone, the following code works great. It returns the name
> of the file and the row that matched the reqex. Is it posible to take
> the regex compile from user input? To make it take an argument, like
>
>> csvSearch.py 10.192.55
>
> af = re.compile(sys.argv[1])
> pattern = re.compile(af) ....?
You only have to compile it once, but you should escape it so .
becomes \. like this:
pattern = re.compile(re.escape(sys.argv[1])
> pattern = re.compile(r'10\.191\.2')
> files = glob.glob("*.csv")
>
> for f in files:
> ff = csv.reader(open (f, 'rb'), delimiter=' ', quotechar='|')
> for row in f:
You don't need the above, it is iterating over the characters of the file name.
> for row in ff:
> for cell in row:
> if pattern.search(cell):
The above two lines can be written as
if any(pattern.search(cell) for cell in row):
Kent
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