On 2/26/2010 4:21 PM, qtrimble wrote:
fileIN = open(r"C:\testing.txt", "r")
for line in fileIN:
year = line[3:7]
day = line[7:10]
print year, day
This is good since i can get the year and day of year into a variable
but I haven't gotten any further.
That's an excellent start. Here's another hint ...
There are two kinds of lines in your input file:
* lines that begin with "wer"
* all other lines
So you need an if-else section to process the lines in the input file:
if line.startswith("wer"):
# use the contents of *line* to assign values
# to variables *year* and *day*
...
else:
# use the current values of *year* and *day*
# to process the numbers extracted from *line*
Most likely, you'll also need these functions:
* split() -- chop a string into pieces
* int() -- string-to-integer conversion
HTH,
John
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