change textfile to a matrix format

[amirayat]

Dears,
I have a text file that is regular like a matrix, I want to have a program to read it in matrix format to knows rows and columns. ofcourse this file is mixture of digits and words somthings like this.
[1 qw 23 rg 4 4
1 w 4 32 s 9]
Help me ,
Best wishes,
Ayat.

[micmast]

I assume the values are seperated by a space and a newline equals a new matrix line.

Also I will only write this in psuedo code since I don't feel like coding atm, yet I do want to answer :)

[CODE=python]
f = open("file.txt" ,"r")
matrix = ()
counter = 0
line = f.readline()
while line <> "":
matrix[counter] = line.split(" ")
line = f.readline()
counter = counter + 1
[/CODE]

What does it do:
First read a file, create a few variables and loop through the file and split the line and add it to the matrix in a new row

[bvdet]

Since you have not shown an effort to code it yourself, I won't provide a complete solution. This uses a list comprehension:

>>> s = "[1 qw 23 rg 4 4\n1 w 4 32 s 9]"
>>> [item.split() for item in s.split('\n')]
[['[1', 'qw', '23', 'rg', '4', '4'], ['1', 'w', '4', '32', 's', '9]']]
>>>