replacing multiple instances of commas beginning at specific position
bruno at modulix
onurb at xiludom.gro
Mon Nov 14 13:42:28 EST 2005
striker wrote:
> I have a comma delimited text file that has multiple instances of
> multiple commas. Each file will contain approximatley 300 lines. For
> example:
>
> one, two, three,,,,four,five,,,,six
> one, two, three,four,,,,,,,,,,eighteen, and so on.
>
> There is one time when multiple commas are allowed. Just prior to the
> letters ADMNSRC there should be one instance of 4 commas. (
> ,eight,,,,ADMNSRC,thirteen, ). The text ADMNSRC is NOT in the same
> place on each line.
>
> What would be the best approach to replace all instances of multiple
> commas with just one comma, except for the 4 commas prior to ADMNSRC?
Seems like a typical use case for the re module...
-> now you've got *2* problems- !-)
--
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"
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