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I am completely new at Python and I am not sure where to start with this task.
Basically, I want to search for a word in each line; if the word is there, output the entire line to another file (Excel or Text).

The lines look like this:
PA,IAV protein,AC0T9,DHP of IAV,2znl-A+z327-A
PPM1B,IHP of IAV,MAGEA2B,DHP of IAV,2p8e-A+z097-a

So, if the line contains IAV protein, I would like to copy the whole first line.

I don't need someone to just give me a code that works (although I won't refuse it...) but if you could point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated.

Thanks

You must tell more clearly what would be expected output. There is also three kinds of IAV bits of info on lines:
"DHP of IAV"
"IHP of IAV" and
"IAV"

>>> if 'IAV' in "PA,IAV protein,AC0T9,DHP of IAV,2znl-A+z327-A":
    print('IAV in line')


IAV in line
>>> 
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I would like to output the entire line that contains that phrase.
So if I had the two lines
PA,IAV protein,AC0T9,DHP of IAV,2znl-A+z327-A
PPM1B,IHP of IAV,MAGEA2B,DHP of IAV,2p8e-A+z097-a

I would want to output
PA,IAV protein,AC0T9,DHP of IAV,2znl-A+z327-A
into a text file since it contains "IAV protein"
It's gotta be the whole phrase "IAV protein" rather than just "IAV"

Also, since I am looking through an entire text file, how would I search the whole file?

something like

with open('data.txt') as datain, open('dataout.txt', 'w') as dataout:
    for d in datain:
        if 'IAV protein' in d:
            dataout.write(d)
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