Reading a file, sans whitespace

Uri phrogeeb at hotmail.com
Sun May 23 03:27:10 EDT 2004


> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> > Say you have read a line in the above format into variable 's'.
> > Then,
> >
> >      l = s.split()
> >
> > will return a list containing each of the fields of the line as
> > an entry with the whitespace stripped out.  Then,
> >
> > VarName = l[0]
> > VarDate = l[1]
> > VarTime = l[2]
> > VarCo   = l[3]
> > VarEmp  = l[4]
> 
> D'oh! That's much better than the regular expression solution I posted.
> 
> The regular expression split is good to know about for more complicated
> patterns, but for simple whitespace splitting there's no need for it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Mike

Thanks guys! Tim's idea seems like the easiest for a newbie to
implement, but I'll play around with Mike's pre-compiling thing, too.
I don't really understand what the compile part does, could you
expound upon that?

Thanks for all your help guys!



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