remove special characters from line

[Alan Kennedy]

[Chris Rennert]

> If I have a line like this
> 
> ²blah blah blah blah blah
> 
> I know I could do a slice like this [1:] to pull everything but the
> special character, but what if I have several lines in a file.
> I am not sure how I would detect a special character like that.  I
> would just like to pull everything from those lines (and the special
> character always appears as the first character, but not on every line)
> except for the special characters.

How about something like this?

for line in file('myfile.stars'):
    print line.lstrip('*')

Should remove all '*' (even if there is more than one) from the beginnings (but
not the ends) of lines.

Egor Bolonev wrote:

> I didn't get what you're talkink about.

Then what was the purpose of your reply?

I find it helps keeps the signal noise to ratio of the group down if people only
post when they have something to contribute.

regards,

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