Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines
Having all that whitespace in the 'wrong' spot breaks the idea of
splitting words based on their being surrounded by whitespace. So get
rid of __all__ whitespace. Then use other logic find what you want.
E.g. if you want the 'word' following the 'word' processor, find the
first occurance of 'processor' in the string (which contains the whole
file), then look at each following character one at a time to see if it
meets the criteria for being in the next word. E.g. if the following
word must be a number and the word after that is not a number, take each
successive character until its not a number and there you have your
target word.
This would be easy in Python but since I don't do RE I couldn't begin to
solve it using anything else.
I still like the idea of fixing the source of these mangled files.
Doug.
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