The TXT file type is primarily associated with 'Text File'. Open in Notepad, WordPad, or many other programs designated as text editors. A true text file will be pure ASCII text with no formatting.
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How to find a word from text file by position index in python?
I have a text file that I want to extract different words from, using a position index given by the user.
for example, the text is: i believe i can fly i believe i can touch the sky i think about it every night and day spread my wings and fly away
I…
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Populating a DataTable with a Text File
I am making a password manager for myself and am storing all of the data locally within a text file. I am not worried about security at the moment, simply trying to get it to work.
I can read from the text file fine and have each of my entries split…
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Is there a way to make my python text files unopenable/unreadable
I would like to store some information for a game I'm making in python using text files. Some of the information stored shouldn't be changeable for the user. Is there any easy way to make the files unopenable/unreadable for a user, however it would…
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How to skip N central lines when reading file?
I have an input file.txt like this:
3
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A
4
7
B
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I'm trying to read the file and
when A is found, print the line that is 2 lines below
when B is found, print the line that is 4 lines below
My current code and current output are…
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How do I print a tibble to a text file with nice formatting?
Tibbles in the tidyverse makes it pleasing to view data tables. How do I print the nicely formatted text to a text file (or rich text file) for viewing, so that I don't have to open the IDE to view the formatted data strings?
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Python doesn't write every line to output file
I am trying to format/clean some data from a text file using Python. The columns are separated by tabs, and I only want certain columns from each row. I am running into a problem that is not making any sense to me and would appreciate some help. I…
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Python discord.py ways to split output to bypass 2000 character limit
I am attempting to output the contents of a text file to a discord channel via Discord. The issue I have is that there is a 2000 character limit. I have been able to bypass this by using the code below
async def on_message(message):
id =…
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Python - Contents of text file being posted as separate messages rather than one message using Discord.py bot
I am currently attempting to post the contents of a text file to a discord channel using Discord.py
The text file contents are below:
Competition English Premier League - Week 35
Competitors Wolves v Everton
Match Date Sunday, 12th July
Match…
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Why isn't this Python code copying the text in one file to another?
So,I am attempting to copy some text from one .txt file to another. However,when I open the second .txt file,the lines have not been written there by the program. This is the code that I'm using.
chptfile =…
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Replace path in text file using Powershell
I want to remove the path G:\Data\editor\ from a text file and replace it with ..\ using powershell.
How do I go about doing that?
powershell -Command "(gc sample.txt) -replace 'G:\Data\editor\', '..\' | Out-File -encoding ASCII sample.txt"
I had…
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How to append desired different length sublist elements?
I have a text like below that I want to store in a dictionary, storing values of the same parameters (keys) in sublists.
file = """./path/to/Inventory2020_1.txt
fileType = Inventory
StoreCode
number:1145C
numId …
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Angular how to create a downloadable text file?
I am creating a project that takes a GET call from an API and writes out select data from the result to a text file. I understand how to call the API and to print out the select data to the console and the page itself, but I am struggling with…
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Extract substrings from a text file on each line?
Is there a way to extract substrings from a textfile from each like e.g.
Say this is the text file but with alot more lines like this:
president, Donald Trump, 74, USA
Priminster, Boris Johnson, 56, UK
I would need to loop through each line and get…
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Filling each slot of an array with a line (String) from a text file
I have a text file list of thousands of String (3272) and I want to put them each into a slot of an Array so that I can use them to be sorted out. I have the sorting part done I just need help putting each line of word into an array. This is what I…
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Problem with Java FileReader
Hello I have this in my code
File file = new File("words.txt");
Scanner scanFile = new Scanner(new FileReader(file));
ArrayList words = new ArrayList();
String theWord;
while (scanFile.hasNext()){
theWord…
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