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MEhsan
MEhsan

Reputation: 2324

How to output lines ( of characters) from a text file into a single line

I need help in how to connect multiple lines from a txt file into one single line without white spaces

The text file is consisting of 8 lines and each single line has 80 characters, as showing:

a busy cat
(source: gulfup.com)

Here is the code that I used, but my problem is that I am not able have all the lines connected with NO white spaces between them: 

inFile = open ("text.txt","r") # open the text file
line1 = inFile.readline() # read the first line from the text.txt file
line2 = inFile.readline() # read the second line from the text.txt file
line3 = inFile.readline()
line4 = inFile.readline()
line5 = inFile.readline()
line6 = inFile.readline()
line7 = inFile.readline()
line8 = inFile.readline()

print (line1.split("\n")[0], # split each line and print it --- My proplem in this code!
       line2.split("\n")[0],
       line3.split("\n")[0],
       line4.split("\n")[0],
       line5.split("\n")[0],
       line6.split("\n")[0],
       line7.split("\n")[0],
       line8.split("\n")[0])

a busy cat
(source: gulfup.com)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2598

Answers (5)

siddharthlatest
siddharthlatest

Reputation: 2257

f = open("file", "r")
print "".join(f.read().split())    # Strips all white-spaces

Upvotes: 0

Faruk Sahin
Faruk Sahin

Reputation: 8726

Try:

lines = ''.join(open("text.txt").read().splitlines())

lines will be a string comprised of all the lines in the text.txt concatenated to each other without the '\n' character.

Upvotes: 0

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1121386

Just read the lines of the file into a list and use ''.join():

with open ("text.txt","r") as inFile:
    lines = [l.strip() for l in inFile]
    print ''.join(lines)

The .strip() call removes all whitespace from the start and end of the line, in this case the newline.

Using a comma with the print statement does more than just omit the newline, it also prints a space between the arguments.

Upvotes: 1

user1632861
user1632861

Reputation: 

infile = open("text.txt", "r")
lines = infile.readlines()
merged = ''.join(lines).replace("́\n", "")

or even better

infile = open("text.txt", "r")
lines = infile.read()
text = lines.replace("\n", "")

Upvotes: 0

Anti Earth
Anti Earth

Reputation: 4801

If your file isn't extraordinarily large, you can open the entire contents as one string.

content = inFile.read()

Lines of text are split by a special character, \n.
If you want everything on one line, remove that character.

oneLine = content.replace('\n', '')

Here, I'm replacing every \n character with an empty string.

Upvotes: 0

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