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find specific word and read after that word in python

so i am very very new to python. need some basic help.

my logic is to find words in text file. 

party A %aapple 1
Party B %bat 2
Party C c 3

i need to find all the words starts from %.

my code is 

 searchfile = open("text.txt", "r")
for line in searchfile:
 for char in line:
if "%" in char:
    print char      

searchfile.close()

but the output is only the % character. I need the putput to be %apple and %bat

any help?

Solution

  • You are not reading the file properly. 

    searchfile = open("text.txt", "r")

lines = [line.strip() for line in searchfile.readlines()]
for line in lines:
    for word in line.split(" "):
        if word.startswith("%"):
            print word

searchfile.close()

    You should also explore regex to solve this as well.