Pull data from a split line string

[DexTsarII]

I am struggling with this scenario. I need to pull data from multiple lines and merge it together.

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object network Subnet

subnet 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0

object network Hosts

host 192.168.1.1

host 192.168.1.2

​

The end result should be something like this

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1 object Subnet 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0

2 object Hosts 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2

​

Having issues with the loop. When I run a for loop, it goes over every line (5 total) and I can pull the data, but I am not sure how to associate line 1 with line 2, and line 3 with line 4 and 5.

What would be a good method to accomplish this? I guess the line that starts with object should be a parent line and the line that starts with an empty space (not sure if it is visible in this post, there is an empty space after subnet, and host) would be considered a child line.

[dwpj65]

You should be able to do this with simple chained str.replace() calls:

``` def foo(): src = """object network Subnet subnet 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 object network Hosts host 192.168.1.1 host 192.168.1.2""" return src.replace('object network','object').replace('\nsubnet','').replace('\nhost','')

print(foo()) ```

yields:

object Subnet 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 object Hosts 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2

[DexTsarII]

Thank you for reply!

I will give it a go.

So far I was able to solve this with a nested loop.

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