Bruce Dawson:
> Given this text (the output from VisualC++) I want to find out
> how many errors and warnings there were:
> 
> smtpmail.exe - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> 
> In C/C++ that would be something like:
> sscanf(buffer, "smtpmail.exe - %d error(s), %d warning(s)", &errors,
> &warnings);

The usual solution is to use regular expressions for this.

> >> import re
> >> text = "smtpmail.exe - 0 error(s), 5 warning(s)"
> >> m = re.match(r"smtpmail.exe - (\d+) error\(s\), (\d+) warning\(s\)",
...              text)
> >> m.group(1), m.group(2)
('0', '5')
> >>

See the documentation for the 're' module.

                    Andrew
                    dalke@[...].com



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