Good evening! The goal is to parse a simple file and grab column one.
Then print each value horizontally separated by a comma.
Why is Python adding a space padding between each value? Please see below.
Thanks ahead of time.
INPUT_FILE # unwanted lines removed
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5555 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah blah
1111 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah blah
3333 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah blah
4444 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah blah
OUTPUT DESIRED
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5555,1111,3333,4444
SCRIPT
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import re
input_file = open('/tmp/file','r')
number_match = re.compile('^\d+\s+\w+\@')
for line in input_file.readlines():
if number_match.match(line):
line = re.split('\s+', line)
print line[0],
print ",",
OUTPUT GENERATED
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5555 , 1111 , 3333 , 4444 ,
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