Question

I have a LARGE text file that I am needing to pull several values from. the text file has alot of info I don’t need. Is there a way I can serach for a specific term that is in a line and return the first value in that line. Please example below

text
text text
text
text text text
text text

aaaaa     text      sum

text
text
text

I need to search for sum and return the value of aaaaa

Is there a way that I can do this?

Answer 1

Are you looking for something like this?

for Line in file("Text.txt", "r"):
  if Line.find("sum") >= 0:
    print Line.split()[0]

Line.split() will split the line up into words, and then you can select with an index which starts from 0, i.e. to select the 2nd word use Line.split()[1]