loop through each line in a text file

[qtrimble]

On Feb 26, 6:19 pm, ru... at yahoo.com wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2:21 pm, qtrimble <qtrim... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Feb 26, 4:14 pm, OdarR <olivier.da... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > below is just a sample.  There are well over 500,000 lines that need
> > > > processed.
>
> > > > wer1999001
> > > >       31.2234      82.2367
> > > >       37.9535      82.3456
> > > > wer1999002
> > > >       31.2234      82.2367
> > > >       37.9535      82.3456
>
> > > did you try something as a working basis ?
>
> > > Olivier
>
> > Yes but it's very simple -
>
> > fileIN = open(r"C:\testing.txt", "r")
>
> > for line in fileIN:
> >     year = line[3:7]
> >     day = line[7:10]
> >     print year, day
>
> > This is good since i can get the year and day of year into a variable
> > but I haven't gotten any further.
>
> How about something like (untested):
>
>   for line in fileIN:
>        if line.startswith ("wer"):
>            year = line[3:7]
>            day = line[7:10]
>         else:
>            print "%s-%s %s" % (year, day, line.strip())
>
> You can adjust the details as needed...

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.

This is what I have now.  It may not be the most efficient or well
written script but it works!  Thanks again!

fileIN = open(r"C:\z_paul\ims1999.txt", "r")

for line in fileIN:
    if line.startswith("ims"):
        year = line[3:7]
        day = line[7:10]
        newfile = file(r"C:\z_paul\output\ims" + year + day + ".txt",
"wt")
        newfile.write("YEAR,DOY,Y_COORD,X_COORD,TYPE\n")
    else:
        temp = line.replace('      ',',')
        temp2 = temp.replace(', ',',')
        newfile.write(year + "," + day + temp2)
newfile.close()