Let say there is a sample text file in Linux
[SampleText.txt] 1234 = 1234 abcd = 1234 efgh = /home/user/targetfile1.txt ijkl = /home/user/targetfile2.txt
How I can get the specific path (/home/user/targetfile1.txt & /home/user/targetfile2.txt) out from the SampleText.txt and place it in a variable?
My suggested approach is to parse the file as a general configuration file, and store things that look like assignments. If you have other weird stuff going on in your file, this may not work, but I think it will work here.
myvars = {}
# iterate through all the lines
for line in open('SampleText.txt').readlines():
# skip this line if it doesn't look like an assignment
if not '=' in line: continue
# split it into left and right pieces
left, right = line.split('=', 1)
# keep it around in a dictionary
myvars[left.strip()] = right.strip()
# now you can query it to get stuff:
myvars['efgh'] # returns /home/user/targetfile1.txt
You need the ConfigParser module:
http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html
It parses files that look like this. Not knowing your exact situation, I can't be sure.
open("sampleText.txt","r").read(). What part of reading a file is confusing? Or are you asking about finding the file name in a line of data? If so, what are the actual formatting rules for the line of data? It would help us if you could post the code you've written so far, so we know what part confuses you.