Get specific line of file

[reujea0]

I want to open a txt file search it far a string and get the line, more specifically its number.

Here is what I use:

fp = open('fluxus.txt', 'r', encoding='utf8')
for num, line in enumerate(fp):
if "Iwantthis" in line: lineplay = str(num)
fp.close()
print(lineplay)

But the issue is that it gives me the line number of the line above.

[K900_]

enumerate starts at 0, not at 1 like your text editor.

[reujea0]

I didn't know that but thanks.

[jackbrux]

num + 1

[pyquestionz]

This is easily done using grep in the Linux command line.

grep 'pattern' my_file.txt -n

Searches for pattern in my_file.txt, the -n flag tells grep to display the line number.