rudikk00 <rudikk99 at yahoo.com> writes: > I remember perl has a match function =~/H/ --> which searches if there > is "H" pattern in line. Is there a reasonable analog of it in python? It's called a regular expression, which can be matched or searched in a string. Take a look at the module "re" in python. http://docs.python.org/library/re.html Diez