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Splitting Text files

Brandon Beck bbeck at REMOVE-THIS-TO-EMAIL-ME.austin.rr.com
Wed Jul 3 02:49:46 EDT 2002 
Ken Seergobin wrote:
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> I've looked around, but have been unable to locate a
> good example of how to split a text file.  Specifically,
> I have datafiles with an identification line marked
> with the name of a BMP  file followed by many lines of
> data.  This repeats a number of times for each datafile.
> Within the data lines I'm only interested in extracting the
> those with a specific keyword.  Ultimately, I'd like to have
> a datafile for each BMP listed in the original file.
> 
> Suggestions would be appreciated.  I really couldn't make
> sense of the regular expression notes I found.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 
> 



I've written something to do exactly this, with the data all on one 
line, not spanning multiple lines.  It obviously not exactly what you 
want but it should give you a good base to work off of if you're 
interested in extending it.

Main directory:
	http://isomorphism.org/~bbeck/splitter/

Splitting algorithm:
	http://isomorphism.org/~bbeck/splitter/splitter.py

Sample splitter:
	http://isomorphism.org/~bbeck/splitter/FirstNameSplitter.py

Sample data (for FirstNameSplitter.py):
	http://isomorphism.org/~bbeck/splitter/input.txt


Hope this helps,
Brandon
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