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Quick question about text processing

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Re: Quick question about text processing

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Jan 27th, 2007
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Originally Posted by Mushy-pea View Post
Could someone tell me the kind of commands I need to research to do stuff with text like this? I can work out the rest. Any help appriciated.

Tools such as sed/awk/perl are used for text processing. they make use of regular expressions alot. So you need to research on how regular expressions work. Text processing can also be done without regular expressions. If you have Python on your machine, here's a simple way to do what you want.
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indices=[] #define array list to keep "~" indexes
s = "Here's some text and ~this bit gets removed~, where tilda is the delimiter."
for num,ch in enumerate(s):
 	if ch == "~":
 		indices.append(num)
s = list(s) #turn s into a list, so we can make changes to it
del s[indices[0]: indices[1]+1] 
print ''join(s)
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