How to check value in a column?

[maximus tee]

hi,

i have a text file(as below). how to check if there is -1, print out which lane is it and fail it. Eg: FAIL Lane 4. My code is like this, but only check whether there is -1 in the file.
=============== =========Code== =============== ============

print 
fname = raw_input('Enter filename: ') 
pattern = raw_input('Enter pattern: ') 
 
def findPattern(fname, pat): 
 
    f = open(fname, "r") 
    for line in f: 
        if pat in line: 
            print "Fail"
            break
            
    else:

        print "Pass"     
 
findPattern(fname, pattern)

=============== =====Data====== =============== ============
Platform: PC
Tempt : 25
TAP0 :0
TAP1 :1

+++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++
Port Chnl Lane EyVt
+++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++
0 1 1 75
0 1 2 55
0 1 3 65
0 1 4 -1
0 1 5 20
+++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++
Time: 20s

thanks
maximus

[maximus tee]

i edited my code to but i think there must be better way to do it. any advice.
thanks
maximus

f = open(filepath,'r')
line_num=0
search_phrase = "-1" 
for line in f.readlines(): 
    line_num += 1   
    
    if line.find(search_phrase) >= 0:        
        print "Fail:Lane %s" %(line_num-8)        
        break

[maximus tee]

the code i had written so far didn't work in cases like when there are more than one Lane having -1. any advice on how to edit the code so that it will display all lanes fail when there is -1 value. thanks.

[bvdet]

I would parse the file, then look for a failure. Here's a stab at it:

def parse(fn):
    f = open(fn)
    
    # look for two lines starting with "+"
    # the data will start on the next line
    cnt = 0
    indata = False

    # save data in a dictionary
    dd = {}

    for line in f:
        if line.startswith("+"):
            if cnt == 1:
                lineNo = 0
                while True:
                    lineNo += 1
                    line = f.next().strip()
                    if line.startswith("+"):
                        f.close()
                        return dd
                    dd[lineNo] = line.split()
            else:
                cnt += 1


fn = 'data10.txt'
dd = parse(fn)
for key in dd:
    if "-1" in dd[key]:
        print "Line number %s failed at column %s" % (key, dd[key].index("-1")+1)

[maximus tee]

thanks for your advice. can you pls elaborate a bit on the purpose of cnt and how the for loop works?
i also added and else statement:

   if "-1" in dd[key]: 
        print "Line number %s failed at column %s" % (key, dd[key].index("-1")+1)
    else:
        print "All lane PASS"

However, this code reads each line and if it can't find -1, it'll print All lane PASS. pls advise how to print out All Lane PASS once only after checking there is no -1 the data file.

thanks
maximus

[bvdet]

maximus,

Please use code tags when posting code. It makes code readable and saves me from having to add them for you.

The purpose of cnt is to keep up with the number of lines starting with "+".

When the second line starting with "+" is found, we enter a for loop and iterate on the file object using file object method next() until we reach another line starting with "+".