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I am working on a project and am wondering how to access the first word from different sets. What I mean is, say I have something like this:

blue is my fav color
red is my fav color
green is my fav color
------------------------
yellow is my fav color
purple is my fav color
black is my fav color
---------------------
pink is my fav color
orange is my fav color
 
where the dashed lines have some other text (if it helps, the text in between each set is almost identical each time)
I only want the words (in a list) blue, yellow, and pink. I have figured out how to get all the first words using split, but I cant figure out how to only access the first word in each set. anyone have any tips??
thanks in advance!

Kaysibabes · Answer

basically you want something like this - you need to process in lines

Array of First Words
Is_Last_Line_not_favourite = false

read in first line of text

while not end of file

if line contains 'fav colour' and Is_last_line_not_favourite then
                   store your first word in your array of words
                   last_line_is_favourite = true
             end if
             if last line does not contain 'fav colour'
                  last_line_is_favourite = false
             end if

read the next line
end of file

John · Answer

i cannot see why a private project source code like this cannot be shown?

sets = []  
skip = False
f = open(filename, 'r')
for data in f:
.. if '-' == data[0]:
.. .. skip = False
.. .. continue
.. elif not skip:
.. .. sets.append(data.split(' ')[0])
.. .. skip = True

EddieJ · Answer

Generally, when you say you have a part of the program working then you should show your code.

But, basically, you just need to set a Boolean variable to True at the start and then every time you detect your separator line, and then to False after processing the first line in a group.

? · Answer

I wish I could help you I just know nothing about computers and coding

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