I have read a file. Now I have all these lines of strings. I need to extract specific lines. These lines are between two lines with a specific string in them. There is no set amount of lines between them. Also, I have to match the two lines. For example, There may be the string in the first line, but there is no match, so I will get the same string after a number of lines. Then I have to see if that line has the match. I have no clue how to do this.
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The "right way" to have done that is to have a list of lines of strings. Let's assume that's what you did. So now you're looking for the indices of the elements that contain the string. So let the list of lines be "lstLines", and let the key string be "strKey". Then the indices, in order, of where the string is found is:berrybub said:
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lstIx = [lstLines.index(i) for i in lstLines if strKey in i]_________________
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