Let's say I open a text file with Python3:
fname1 = "filename.txt"
with open(fname1, "rt", encoding='latin1') as in_file:
readable_file = in_file.read()
The output is a standard text file of paragraphs:
\n\n"Well done, Mrs. Martin!" thought Emma. "You know what you are about."\n\n"And when she had come away, Mrs. Martin was so very kind as to send\nMrs. Goddard a beautiful goose--the finest goose Mrs. Goddard had\never seen. Mrs. Goddard had dressed it on a Sunday, and asked all\nthe three teachers, Miss Nash, and Miss Prince, and Miss Richardson,\nto sup with her."\n\n"Mr. Martin, I suppose, is not a man of information beyond the line\nof his own business? He does not read?"\n\n"Oh yes!--that is, no--I do not know--but I believe he has\nread a good deal--but not what you would think any thing of.\nHe reads the Agricultural Reports, and some other books that lay\nin one of the window seats--but he reads all _them_ to himself.\nBut sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read\nsomething aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining.\nAnd I know he has read the Vicar of Wakefield. He never read the\nRomance of the Forest, nor The Children of the Abbey. He had never\nheard of such books before I mentioned them, but he is determined\nto get them now as soon as ever he can."\n\nThe next question was--\n\n"What sort of looking man is Mr. Martin?"
How can one save only a certain string within this file? For example, how does one save the sentence
And when she had come away, Mrs. Martin was so very kind as to send\nMrs. Goddard a beautiful goose--the finest goose Mrs. Goddard had\never seen.
into a separate text file? How do you know the indices where to access this sentence?
CLARIFICATION: There should be no decision statements to make. The end goal is to create a program which the user could "save" sentences or paragraphs separately. I am asking a more general question at the moment.
Let's say there's a certain paragraph I like in this text. I would like a way to append this quickly to a JSON file or text file. In principle, how does one do this? Tagging all sentences? Is there a way to isolate paragraphs? (To repeat above) How do you know the indices where to access this sentence? (especially if there is no "decision logic")
If I know the indices, couldn't I simply slice the string?
