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Using Python scripting environment, I am trying to print string index for each string occurrence from a file, The code I have written if as follows:-
#!/usr/bin/env python
import re

file = open("file.txt", "r")
regex = re.compile(r'xy ')

for line in file:
preamble = regex.findall(line)
for word in preamble:
print(""+ str(word))

The output, I am getting is
xy
xy
.
.

But I want index no of each occurrence of pattern xy as [10, 28, 76] occurrence and every new line occurrence for pattern xy of file.txt should be printed in new line.

What I have tried:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import re

file = open("file.txt", "r")
regex = re.compile(r'xy ') 

for line in file:
    preamble = regex.findall(line)
    for word in preamble:
         print(""+ str(word))
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Updated 31-Oct-20 21:53pm

1 solution

Use an indexer instead of a regex. You need to loop over each character of the line of text looking for the substrings. For each find you can print the position or save it to a list.
 
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Senor H 1-Nov-20 7:34am    
Thanks Richars, but I am newbie and looking for code similar to available at following link.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-output-formatting/
Above link do the job for strings. I am trying to do the same reading file.
Richard MacCutchan 1-Nov-20 7:38am    
Sorry but I have no idea what that website does, and I don't plan to go and find out. Whatever it is you are looking for you need to make clear in your question. You can also check 7. Input and Output — Python 3.9.0 documentation[^] for more information.

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