Thanks, I have learnt sth from the library BTW. Regards On Oct 25, 3:32 pm, "Jerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very inelegant, but you get the idea: > > counter = 0 > > f = open("test.txt") > for line in f.readlines(): > if line[0] != "$" and counter < 2: > counter += 1 > continue > else: > print line, > > -- > Jerry
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