Somemore can be anything for instance: Sometext mail maskit
Sometext rupee dollar maskit and so on.. Is there a way I can achieve this? On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 2:24:26 PM UTC-5, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2013-07-02, sas4...@gmail.com <sas4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a text file like this: > > > > > > Sometext > > > Somemore > > > Somemore > > > maskit > > > > > > Sometext > > > Somemore > > > Somemore > > > Somemore > > > maskit > > > > > > Sometext > > > Somemore > > > maskit > > > > > > I want to search for the string maskit in this file and also > > > need to print Sometext above it..SOmetext location can vary as > > > you can see above. > > > > > > In the first instance it is 3 lines above mask it, in the > > > second instance it is 4 lines above it and so on.. > > > > > > Please help how to do it? > > > > How can you tell the difference between Sometext and Somemore? > > > > -- > > Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
