On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:13 AM, durgadevi1 <srirajarajeswaridevikrupa at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, >> I have another homework problem. >> I have a textfile. It contains lines of string. >> I am required to only print out a certain part of the string. >> For example the textfile contain: >> ABC XXXXX NNNNN > BCD QQQQQ EEEEE > ABC WWWWW AAAAA >>> I need to print all the parts that come after only ABC. >> That means I need to print only XXXXX from the first line and WWWWW from the second line. >> I'm not sure of what code to use to achieve that. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list do you know how to open the file and do a for loop to get each line in the string? If you do, do you know about this: >>> s = "ABC XXXXX NNNNN" >>> s_split = s.split() >>> s_split ['ABC', 'XXXXX', 'NNNNN'] >>> s_split[0] 'ABC' >>> -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays