Question

I am new to Python and need some help.

i need to write a script that will look for file in c:\script\test\ directory with ext “.dat” and find “^” in there and replace with “|”

i am not sure how to write this. There will only be one file for a day in the directory with the current date as the file name.

Please help. I am not a good programmer obviously

thanks

Answer 1

import glob
for filename in glob.glob(r"C:\script\test\*.dat"):
    with open(filename, 'rb') as inputfile:
        data = inputfile.read()
    with open(filename, 'wb') as outputfile:
        outputfile.write(data.replace("^", "|"))

should work in Python 2.6 and 2.7. Make sure you make a backup of your file first.