I need to comment a set of line which has similar pattern with a unique value on it.
example
a {
1
2 one
3
}
a {
1
2 two
3
}
In the above example I need to comment the entire block. base on the unique value "two" like this.
a {
1
2 one
3
}
#a {
#1
#2 two
#3
#}
The above I'm able to get the block with index line but unable to do a inplace edit or replace. I'm using python2 code:
line = open('file').readlines()
index = line.index('two\n')
abline = int(index)-2
beline = int(abline)+5
for linei in range(abline,beline+1):
nline = '%s%s' % ("##",line[linei].strip())
print(nline)
I don't think you can do it inplace. what you can do is read the file first, comment its content and then write into the file. something like this
lines = open('file').readlines()
index = -1
for ind,line in enumerate(lines):
if 'two' in line:
index = ind
commented_lines = ''
for ind,line in enumerate(lines):
if ind >= index-2 and ind <=index+2:
commented_lines += '#%s' %line
else:
commented_lines += line
with open('file', 'w') as f:
f.write(commented_lines)
assuming the searched text will always be present in the file.