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    <p>I basically need a program/script that will search a file for regex matches and then save each match to a newly created text file (ie. match_01.txt, match_02.txt, match_03.txt, etc.). NB: it must support multiline matching!</p> <p><strong>EDIT :</strong></p> <p>This is what I tried using Josha's help (thx:):</p> <p>I get an error when I try this</p> <p><strong>Python Script:</strong> </p> <pre><code>import re pattern = re.compile(r'(?s)(?&lt;=Sample)(.*?)(?=EndSample)', flags=re.S) with open('test.txt', 'r') as f: matches = pattern.findall(f.read()) for i, match in enumerate(matches): with open('Split/match{0:04d}.txt'.format(i), 'w') as nf: nf.write(match) </code></pre> <p></p> <p><strong>Command Prompt:</strong></p> <pre><code>C:\Test\python test.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 31, in &lt;module&gt; nf.write(match) TypeError: expected a character buffer object </code></pre> <p>test.txt looks something like this:</p> <p>Sample A1 ... ... ... ... ... EndSample</p> <p>Sample B4 ... ... ... ... ... EndSample</p> <p>Sample X6 ... ... ... ... ... EndSample</p> <p>So I need to match everything between "Sample" and "EndSample" (hundreds of lines in-between) and write each match to its own txt file. So far it only works if my regex pattern is ie. "Sample". There is 15 matches and it does create 15 txt files in the Split folder but they all contain just the word Sample and nothing more. Multiline still not working looks like.. And if my regex is this: </p> <blockquote> <p>(?s)(Sample)(.*?)</p> </blockquote> <p>then it also gives me the same error as above. Its like it doesnt like (.*?) Strange..?</p>
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    1. COWhich programming language? What have you tried?
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    2. COpython, as stated above. shouldn't the script above work?
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    3. COok, voted to reopen after your edit. I don't know Python that much, so sorry, I can't help :)
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