Question

I am trying to break a huge SQL file into little sql file and I am using python to achieve this, but the code that I’m using doesn’t match and from what I’ve seen on google it should.

Here is the code:

    import sys, re
    p = [0]
    f = open('/root/testsql/data.sql', 'r')
    tables =["tabel1", "table2"]
    contor = 0;
    con = 0;

    for line in f:
        for table in tables:
            stri = "root/testsql/" + str(con)
            con = con + 1
            stri2 = ".*" + table + ".*"
            if re.match(stri2,line):
                    print table
                    f2 = open(stri,"w")
                    f2.write(line)
                    f2.close()

If anybody has an idea why re.match doesn’t work, it would be much appreciated.

The sql file is very long (73595 lines)and contains lines like:

insert into table ...
insert into table

Answer 1

You’re only looking for verbatim strings. In that case, regex is overkill. Instead, use in:

for line in f:
    for table in tables:
        # snip...
        if table in line:
            # ...