Python Regular Expressions

[Andy Barnes]

to expand. I have parsed one of the lines manually to try and break
the process I'm trying to automate down.

source:
Theurgic Lore, Lore, n/a, 105, 70, 30, Distil Mana

output:
TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|n/a}|{105|70|30}}"];
DistilMana -> TheurgicLore;

This is the steps I would take to do this conversion manually:

1) Take everything prior to the first comma and remove all the spaces,
insert it into a newline:

TheurgicLore

2) append the following string ' [label="{ '

TheurgicLore [label="{

3) append everything prior to the first comma (this time we don't need
to remove the spaces)

TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore

4) append the following string ' |{'

TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{

5) append everything between the 1st and 2nd comma of the source file
followed by a '|'

TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|

6) append everything between the 2nd and 3rd comma of the source file
followed by a '}|{'

TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|n/a}|{

7) append everything between the 3rd and 4th comma of the source file
followed by a '|'

TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|n/a}|{105|

8) append everything between the 4th and 5th comma of the source file
followed by a '|'

TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|n/a}|{105|70|

9) append everything between the 5th and 6th comma of the source file
followed by a '}}"];'

TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|n/a}|{105|70|30}}"];

Those 9 steps spit out my fist line of output file as above
"TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|n/a}|{105|70|30}}"];" I
now have to parse the dependancies onto a newline.

# this next process needs to be repeated for each prerequisite, so if
there are two pre-requisites it would need to keep parsing for more
comma's.
1a) take everything between the 6th and 7th comma and put it at the
start of a new line (remove spaces)

DistilMana

2a) append '-> '

DistilMana ->

3a) append everything prior to the first comma, with spaces removed

DistilMana -> TheurgicLore

This should now be all the steps to spit out:

TheurgicLore [label="{ Theurgic Lore |{Lore|n/a}|{105|70|30}}"];
DistilMana -> TheurgicLore;