Parsing by Line Data

[python1]

Bill Dandreta wrote:

> python1 wrote:
> 
>> ...lines in a file, for example:
>>
>> 01A\n
>> 02B\n
>> 01A\n
>> 02B\n
>> 02C\n
>> 01A\n
>> 02B\n
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>> The lines beginning with '01' are the 'header' records, whereas the 
>> lines beginning with '02' are detail. There can be several detail 
>> lines to a header.
>>
>> I'm looking for a way to put the '01' and subsequent '02' line data 
>> into one list, and breaking into another list when the next '01' 
>> record is found.
>>
>> How would you do this? I'm used to using 'readlines()' to pull the 
>> file data line by line, but in this case, determining the break-point 
>> will need to be done by reading the '01' from the line ahead. Would 
>> you need to read the whole file into a string and use a regex to break 
>> where a '\n01' is found?
> 
> 
> First let me prface my remarks by saying I am not much of a programmer 
> so this may not be the best way to solve this but I would use a 
> dictionary someting like this (untested):
> 
> myinput = open(myfile,'r')
> lines = myinput.readlines()
> myinput.close()
> 
> mydict = {}
> index = -1
> 
> for l in lines:
>   if l[0:2] == '01'
>     counter = 0
>     index += 1
>     mydict[(index,counter)] = l[2:]
>   else:
>     mydict[(index,counter)] = l[2:]
>     counter += 1
> 
> You can easy extract the data with a nested loop.
> 
> Bill

Thanks Bill. Will use this script in place of Eddie's if python is sub 
2.2 on our Aix box.

Thanks again.