Parsing a text file for information

[Emile van Sebille]

Colin Meeks
> I have a text file that is several magabytes in size and would like to
> strip it of certain information. The information I want is always
> preceeded by
>     GETTEXT=
> and is in itself 18 characters long.  Is there a regular expression I
> could use to simplify the task.
>

Here's a way without re's:

[ ii[:18] for ii in text.split('GETTEXT=')[1:] ]

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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