On Tuesday 08 May 2007 22:23:31 John Salerno wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > > typed, there are often line breaks at the end of each line > > Also, there are sometimes tabs used to indent the subsequent lines of > citation, but I assume with that I can just replace the tab with a space.
Is this how the text looks like: 123 some information 124 some other information 126(tab here)something else If this is the case (the numbers are at the beginning, and after the numbers there is either a newline or a tab, the logic might be this simple: get the numbers at the beginning of the line. Check for \n and \t after the number, if either exists, remove them or replace them with a space or whatever you prefer, and there you have it. Also, how are the records seperated? By empty lines? If so, \n\n is an empty line in a string, like this: """ some text here\n \n some other text here\n """ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
