CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
ioio
ioio

Reputation: 21

Splitting a data file into separate files using python

I have a text file that is formatted as shown below. I want to split each block of text starting from '# Data Written' into separate text files.

How do I go about this? I'm sure a few lines of python code could do this, but I'm not a pythonista, alas. Suggestions, please.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 507

Answers (1)

CanadianCaleb
CanadianCaleb

Reputation: 136

I assume this is something along the lines of what you were looking for?

f = open('filename.txt', 'r')

databaseRaw = f.read()

database = databaseRaw.split('# Data Written')

f.close()

database.remove('')

for i in range(0, len(database)) :
    database[i] = '# Data Written'+''.join(database[i])

for i in range(0, len(database)) :
    f = open("output.txt"+ str([i]) ,"w+")
    f.write(database[i])
    f.close()

EDIT : Figured out the problem I had had before, works fine now.

it will create a new file per block, starting at 0, and if it creating a new line at the of end each file is an issue, I can make an easy way to remove it.

Upvotes: 2

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