Find a word in a file using Python-DecodingDevOps
Find a word in a file using Python
STEP 1: create a new text file using notepad and write some appropriate sentences in the respective text file and save the text file in the '.txt' format.
STEP 2: Open the text file using the open() function in the read mode and read the text in the following text file using the read function.
STEP 3: split the text using the split function. The split() method is used to split a string into an array of substrings and returns the new array.
STEP 4: using the for loop which is used for iteration and to check the particular word assigning the i value to the word which is to be checked and print the following word in a text file having some appropriate sentences.
with open(r"textfile.txt") as file content = file.read() sentence = content.split(' ') for i in sentence: if i == "word" : print i
OUTPUT: The searched "word " is the output for the following program.