extract certain values from file with re

[Paddy]

Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> Hi,
>    ....
>
> I actually want to extract the lines with the numbers, write
> them to a file and finally use gnuplot for plotting them. A
> nicer and more python way would be to extract those numbers,
> write them into an array according to their column and plot
> those using the gnuplot or matplotlib module :-)
>

You might try comparing Ploticus to Gnuplot for your graph plotting
  http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/

... but if you already know gnuplot, and it does what you want then ...

- Pad.