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Re: Parsing Text file

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On 2013-07-02, Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 12:30 PM, sas429s@gmail.com wrote:
>> Somemore can be anything for instance:
>>
>> Sometext
>> mail
>> maskit
>>
>> Sometext
>> rupee
>> dollar
>> maskit
>>
>> and so on..
>>
>> Is there a way I can achieve this?
>
> How do we know whether we have Sometext?
> If it's really just a literal 'Sometext', then
> just print that when you hit maskit.
>
> Otherwise:
>
>
> for line in open('file.txt').readlines():
> 	
> 	if is_sometext(line):
> 		memory = line
>
> 	if line == 'maskit':
> 		print memory

Tobiah's solution fits what little we can make of your problem.

My feeling is that you've simplified your question a little too
much in hopes that it would help us provide a better solution.
Can you provide more context? 

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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Parsing Text file sas429s@gmail.com - 2013-07-02 11:45 -0700
  Re: Parsing Text file Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-07-02 19:24 +0000
    Re: Parsing Text file sas429s@gmail.com - 2013-07-02 12:30 -0700
      Re: Parsing Text file Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> - 2013-07-02 12:50 -0700
        Re: Parsing Text file Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-07-02 20:12 +0000
          Re: Parsing Text file sas429s@gmail.com - 2013-07-02 13:28 -0700
            Re: Parsing Text file Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 21:56 +0100
            Re: Parsing Text file Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-07-03 00:55 +0000
        Re: Parsing Text file Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-07-02 21:28 +0100

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