I am a beginner in python and I am using it for my master thesis, so I don't know that much. I have a bunch of annual reports (in txt format) files and I want to select all the text between "ITEM1." and "ITEM2.". I am using the re package. My problem is that sometimes, in those 10ks, there is a section called "ITEM1A.". I want the code to recognize this and stop at "ITEM1A." and put in the output the text between "ITEM1." and "ITEM1A.". In the code I attached to this post, I tried to make it stop at "ITEM1A.", but it does not, it continues further because "ITEM1A." appears multiple times through the file. I would be ideal to make it stop at the first one it sees. The code is the following:
import os
import re
#path to where 10k are
saved_path = "C:/Users/Adrian PC/Desktop/Thesis stuff/10k abbot/python/Multiple 10k/saved files/"
#path to where to save the txt with the selected text between ITEM 1 and ITEM 2
selected_path = "C:/Users/Adrian PC/Desktop/Thesis stuff/10k abbot/python/Multiple 10k/10k_select/"
#get a list of all the items in that specific folder and put it in a variable
list_txt = os.listdir(saved_path)
for text in list_txt:
file_path = saved_path+text
file = open(file_path,"r+", encoding="utf-8")
file_read = file.read()
# looking between ITEM 1 and ITEM 2
res = re.search(r'(ITEM[\s\S]*1\.[\w\W]*)(ITEM+[\s\S]*1A\.)', file_read)
item_text_section = res.group(1)
saved_file = open(selected_path + text, "w+", encoding="utf-8") # save the file with the complete names
saved_file.write(item_text_section) # write to the new text files with the selected text
saved_file.close() # close the file
print(text) #show the progress
file.close()
If anyone has any suggestions on how to tackle this, it would be great. Thank you!
