Hi,
When i search for a pattern in a file how do i get the line and line#? basically i want to replicate the 'grep' command functionality. Now i can easily say whether the pattern exists or not using re.search funtion but i'm not able to print that particular line and line#. are there any functions in re module for that?
Maybe you need to do a line by line match in a loop and then line/line number shouldn't be a problem. I'm not sure how much slower it may be compared to what you're doing now but you can e.g. download a big plain-text e-book and do some tests.
HTH
Chandra,
There are several ways you could do this, however, this is one way.
import re
def main():
file = open('your_file_here.txt')
lines = file.readlines()
file.close()
pattern = re.compile('&(?!#)(?!amp;)(?!quot;)(?!lt;)(?!gt;)')
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
if pattern.search(line):
print i, line
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()In the above I am searching the "your_file_here.txt" file for just an ampersand "&" all by itself. The code will print out the line number and the line that was matched to the pattern.
Trust that helps.
Wayne
worked like a charm... thanks a lot Wayne ... i didnt know about this 'readlines' function.
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