Parsing Text file
sas429s at gmail.com
sas429s at gmail.com
Tue Jul 2 15:30:07 EDT 2013
Somemore can be anything for instance:
Sometext
mail
maskit
Sometext
rupee
dollar
maskit
and so on..
Is there a way I can achieve this?
On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 2:24:26 PM UTC-5, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2013-07-02, sas429s at gmail.com <sas429s at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a text file like this:
>
> >
>
> > Sometext
>
> > Somemore
>
> > Somemore
>
> > maskit
>
> >
>
> > Sometext
>
> > Somemore
>
> > Somemore
>
> > Somemore
>
> > maskit
>
> >
>
> > Sometext
>
> > Somemore
>
> > maskit
>
> >
>
> > I want to search for the string maskit in this file and also
>
> > need to print Sometext above it..SOmetext location can vary as
>
> > you can see above.
>
> >
>
> > In the first instance it is 3 lines above mask it, in the
>
> > second instance it is 4 lines above it and so on..
>
> >
>
> > Please help how to do it?
>
>
>
> How can you tell the difference between Sometext and Somemore?
>
>
>
> --
>
> Neil Cerutti
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