Ndtyjky

I have a text file like this

ababaabababab

+hostname R1

interface GigabitEthernet0/1

 +shutdown

+banner login

-hostname r

ababababababa

ababaabababab

r#

I would like to get something like this output

>>> print running_conf



+hostname R1

interface GigabitEthernet0/1

 +shutdown

+banner login







>>> print saved_conf     

-hostname r

ababababababa

ababaabababab

After trying so many stuff on this site, I still can't make it work. this is my code

with open ("file.text", "r") as saveoutput:

    for line in saveoutput:

        if line.startswith( '+' ):

            continue

            if line.startswith( '-' ):

                break

        print line

    for line in saveoutput:

        if line.startswith( '-' ):

            if line.endswith( '#' ):

                break

        print line

The following code will output everything in your file from a line starting with '+' onwards till a line starting with "-" gets reached:

copy = False



with open ("file.text", "r") as saveoutput:

    for line in saveoutput:

        if line.startswith( '+' ):

            copy = True

        if line.startswith( '-' ):

            copy = False

        if copy:

            print line

and the following program

copy = False



with open ("file.text", "r") as saveoutput:

    for line in saveoutput:

        if line.startswith( '-' ):

            copy = True

        if line.endswith( '#' ):

            copy = False

        if copy:

            print line

will output everything from the first line starting with a "-" till the line ending with a "#". In case you want to have a single program that is doing both actions altogether:

copy1 = False

copy2 = False



with open ("file.text", "r") as saveoutput:

    for line in saveoutput:

        if line.startswith( '+' ):

            copy1 = True

        if line.startswith( '-' ):

            copy1 = False

        if line.startswith( '-' ):

            copy2 = True

        if line.endswith( '#' ):

            copy2 = False

        if copy1 or copy2:

            print line

Below is the program that gives your desired output, although please specify the cases of your output clearly.

flag=False

with open ("file.txt", "r") as saveoutput:

    for line in saveoutput:

        if line.startswith('-'):

            flag=False

        elif line.startswith('+'):

            flag=True

        if flag:

            print(line,end='')



print('------------------------')

flag=False

with open ("file.txt", "r") as saveoutput:

    for line in saveoutput:

        if (line.startswith('+')) or (line.endswith('#n')):

            flag=False

        elif line.startswith('-'):

            flag=True

        if flag:

            print(line,end='')