A little Python Help....

[nyplayer]

I am having a brain fart... this should be so easy but....

I have a text file that I would like to add an incremental number to the end of each instance for example of the word "STUDENT:

sudent.txt
blah blah blah STUDENT001 next Instance STUDENT002 etc and so on.

[wayner]

Try using ChatGPT from the Bing search engine. I asked it "how do you loop through numbers 1 to 10 in python and add the number to the word "student""

You can loop through numbers 1 to 10 in Python using a for loop and add the number to the word “student” by typecasting the number into a string using typecasting and then concatenating using the ‘+’ operator. Here’s an example:

for i in range(1, 11):
    text = "student " + str(i)
    print(text)
This will output:

student 1
student 2
student 3
student 4
student 5
student 6
student 7
student 8
student 9
student 10
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by wayner

Try using ChatGPT from the Bing search engine. I asked it "how do you loop through numbers 1 to 10 in python and add the number to the word "student""

You can loop through numbers 1 to 10 in Python using a for loop and add the number to the word “student” by typecasting the number into a string using typecasting and then concatenating using the ‘+’ operator. Here’s an example:

for i in range(1, 11):
    text = "student " + str(i)
    print(text)
This will output:

student 1
student 2
student 3
student 4
student 5
student 6
student 7
student 8
student 9
student 10
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Wow that is amazing can this be done with a c:\test\student.txt file as input ? with multiple instances of student.

[wayner]

Not sure exactly what you are asking for, does this work:

You can loop through a text file called “student.txt” and replace each instance of “STUDENT” with “STUDENT1” where the number is incremented by using a for loop and the replace() function1. Here’s an example:

with open('student.txt', 'r') as f:
    lines = f.readlines()

with open('student.txt', 'w') as f:
    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
        line = line.replace('STUDENT', f'STUDENT{i+1}')
        f.write(line)
This will replace each instance of “STUDENT” with “STUDENT1”, “STUDENT2”, etc.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by wayner

Not sure exactly what you are asking for, does this work:

You can loop through a text file called “student.txt” and replace each instance of “STUDENT” with “STUDENT1” where the number is incremented by using a for loop and the replace() function1. Here’s an example:

with open('student.txt', 'r') as f:
    lines = f.readlines()

with open('student.txt', 'w') as f:
    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
        line = line.replace('STUDENT', f'STUDENT{i+1}')
        f.write(line)
This will replace each instance of “STUDENT” with “STUDENT1”, “STUDENT2”, etc.

That is exactly what I was asking for Thanks That AI is great playing around with it.

It worked Thank you