[Tutor] extracting lines between patterns.

[Prasad, Ramit]

> Friends,
>Could someone please give some hint on how to extract lines between two patterns in a file. I use the re module to compile my patterns but not able to figure out how i can use these patterns to extract the lines lying in between.

Not sure exactly what you want but something like this could work. Note, this
is not memory efficient. 

line = file.read()
index1 = line.find( PATTERN1 )
index2 = line.find( PATTERN2 )
in_between = line[index1 + len( index1 ):index2]
number_of_lines = len( in_between.split() )  # -1 ?
# might need to adjust (-1) to avoid the line PATTERN1 is on

Ramit


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