deleting the first and the last character of a string
Andrew Henshaw
andrew.henshaw at mail.com
Wed Sep 11 08:34:42 EDT 2002
Manuel Hendel wrote:
> I got a file with fields seperated by a "|". The problem is that there
> is also a "|" at the beginning and at the end of each line although
> there no fields in front or behind these "|". Now I want to delete
> these two "|". Is there anything which says delete the first or last
> character of a string? I checked the string module on the web, but I
> couldn't find anything.
>
> I solved it like this, but I honestly don't like it that way.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> #
> import sys
> import string
>
> inputfile = open(sys.argv[-1], "r")
>
> for line in inputfile.readlines():
> fields = string.split(line, "|")
> lineN = string.join(fields[1:-1], "|")
>
> Isn't there any better solution? ;-)
>
> Manuel
>
Just like your slicing of the list, you can slice a string:
string[1:-1]
Although, I believe that each of your strings will have a \n that
needs to be deleted; therefore,
string[1:-2]
--
Andrew Henshaw
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