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[amex]

Have to import emails to a certain program in a specific format and would save me hours if a kind soul could whip up a script to do this:

A) A text box where I can paste in emails, one email per line.

B) Click submit.

C) In the box below, it spits out (in one continuous line) all the emails, however they should be separated by the following format:

'email1@aol.com', 'email2@test.com', 'yada@yada.com', and so on and so forth.

Thanks

[mattle]

Kind souls need to eat

[amex]

Originally Posted by mattle

Kind souls need to eat

I would donate to the cause but I don't believe that such an arrangement is so great per WHT rules.

[mwatkins]

I've already had dinner, so here you go:

PHP Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
emails = ["'%s'" % email.strip() for email in
          open('your_input_file.txt', 'r').readlines()]
open('emails.txt', 'w').write(",".join(emails))
# want them sorted?
# open('emails.txt', 'w').write(",".join(sorted(emails))) 


The forgoing assumes this requirement of yours is a one off thing - i.e., doesn't have to be a text box for web based clients, but instead data could be within a text file you supply.

The two line "script" takes a file containing:

$ more your_input_file.txt 
foo@bar.com
narfy@bat.ca
shoo@foot.org
garbanzo@bean.com

And turns it into:

$ more emails.txt 
'foo@bar.com','narfy@bat.ca','shoo@foot.org','garbanzo@bean.com'

Or the following if you want it sorted:

$ more emails.txt 
'foo@bar.com','garbanzo@bean.com','narfy@bat.ca','shoo@foot.org'

[amex]

Originally Posted by mwatkins

I've already had dinner, so here you go:

PHP Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
emails = ["'%s'" % email.strip() for email in
          open('your_input_file.txt', 'r').readlines()]
open('emails.txt', 'w').write(",".join(emails))
# want them sorted?
# open('emails.txt', 'w').write(",".join(sorted(emails))) 


The forgoing assumes this requirement of yours is a one off thing - i.e., doesn't have to be a text box for web based clients, but instead data could be within a text file you supply.

The two line "script" takes a file containing:

$ more your_input_file.txt 
foo@bar.com
narfy@bat.ca
shoo@foot.org
garbanzo@bean.com

And turns it into:

$ more emails.txt 
'foo@bar.com','narfy@bat.ca','shoo@foot.org','garbanzo@bean.com'

Or the following if you want it sorted:

$ more emails.txt 
'foo@bar.com','garbanzo@bean.com','narfy@bat.ca','shoo@foot.org'

Thanks so much for your effort. Crazy Q: Should the script be a .sh?

I am getting the following error:

./index.sh: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./index.sh: line 2: `emails = ["'%s'" % email.strip() for email in'

[mwatkins]

It should run as is:

$ more v2h_emails.py 
#!/usr/bin/env python
emails = ["'%s'" % email.strip() for email in
          open('your_input_file.txt', 'r').readlines()]
open('emails.txt', 'w').write(",".join(emails))
# want them sorted?
# open('emails.txt', 'w').write(",".join(sorted(emails)))

$ chmod +x v2h_emails.py

$ ./v2h_emails.py 

$ more emails.txt 
'foo@bar.com','narfy@bat.ca','shoo@foot.org','garbanzo@bean.com'

Or run it:

python v2h_emails.py

If you still get the syntax errors, either the script is being interpreted as a shell script (it isn't) or your Python is really ancient.

$ python --version
Python 2.6.2

Any relatively recent version of Python (2.5 and greater) ought to do.

[amex]

Originally Posted by mwatkins

It should run as is:

$ more v2h_emails.py 
#!/usr/bin/env python
emails = ["'%s'" % email.strip() for email in
          open('your_input_file.txt', 'r').readlines()]
open('emails.txt', 'w').write(",".join(emails))
# want them sorted?
# open('emails.txt', 'w').write(",".join(sorted(emails)))

$ chmod +x v2h_emails.py

$ ./v2h_emails.py 

$ more emails.txt 
'foo@bar.com','narfy@bat.ca','shoo@foot.org','garbanzo@bean.com'

Or run it:

python v2h_emails.py

If you still get the syntax errors, either the script is being interpreted as a shell script (it isn't) or your Python is really ancient.

$ python --version
Python 2.6.2

Any relatively recent version of Python (2.5 and greater) ought to do.

Thanks so much! Worked like a charm.