[Tutor] Extract strings from a text file

[wesley chun]

> There is a text file that looks like this:
>
> text text text <ID>Joseph</text text text>
> text text text text text text text text text text text
> text text text text text text text text text text text
> text text text text text text text text text text text
> text text text text text text text text text text text
> text text text text text text text text text text text
> text text text text text text text text text text text
> text text text text text text text text text text text
> text text text <Full name> Joseph Smith</text text text>
> text text text <Rights> 1</text text text>
> text text text <LDAP> 0</text text text>
>
> What I am trying to do is:
>
> 1. I need to extract the name and the full name from this text file. For
> example: ( ID is Joseph & Full name is Joseph Smith).


in addition to denis' suggestion of using regular expressions, you can
also look at the xml.etree module and have ElementTree parse them into
tags for you, so all you have to do is ask for the ID and "Full name"
tags to get your data.

good luck!
-- wesley
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