I am using an intel iMac with OS -X 10.4.8. It has Python 2.3.5. My issue is that I have a lot of text ( about 500 pages at the moment) that I need to parse so that I can eliminate info I don't need, break the remainder into fields and put in a database/spreadsheet. See example next:
A.-C. Manufacturing Company. (See Sebastian, A. A., and Capes, assignors.) A. G. A. Railway Light & Signal Co. (See Meden, Elof H„ assignor.) A-N Company, The. (See Alexander and Nasb, as- signors.; AN Company, The. (See Nash, It. J., and Alexander, as- signors.) A/S. Arendal Smelteverk. (See Kaaten, Einar, assignor.) A/S. Bjorgums Gevaei'kompani. (See Bjorguni, Nils, as- signor.) A/S Mekano. (Sec Schepeler, Herman A., assignor.) A/S Myrens Verkstad. (See Klling, Jens W. A., assignor.) A/S Stordo Kisgruber. (See Nielsen, C., and Ilelleland, assignors.) A-Z Company, The. 'See llanmer, Laurence G., assignor.) Aagaard, Carl L., Rockford, 111. Hand scraping tool. No. 1,345,058 ; July 6; v. 276 ; p. 05. Aalborg, Christian, Wllkinsburg, Pa., assignor to Wcst- inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Trol- ley. No. 1,334,943 ; Mar. 30 ; v. 272 ; p. 741. Aaron, Solomon E., Boston, Mass. Pliers. No. 1,329,155 ; Jan. 27 ; v. 270 ; p. 554. For instance, I would like to go to end of line and if last character is a comma or semicolon or hyphen then remove the CR. Then move line by line through the file and delete everything after a numerical sequence I am wondering if Python would be a good tool and if so where can I find information on how to accomplish this or would I be better off using something like the unix tool awk or something else?? Thanks Jay _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
