I would like to strip leading and trailing spaces from my 851 files. How can I do this? The first file is made up of 220 lines. The last file is made up of 1315 lines. I tried:
x = 1
while x < 852:
f = open("final.%d.txt" % x)
lines = f.readlines()
for i in range(0,row+1):
str_a = lines[i]
print(str_a.strip())
x = x + 1
But it only outputs 851 filenames.
I'm not entirely sure what you want to do but I will suppose that:
I will now provide you with a solution that writes the files without white space in another directory. This way you won't overwrite your input files if this is not what your wanted. If my assumptions are wrong, could you be more precise about what you want to do?
import os, os.path
output_directory = "files_stripped"
os.makedirs(output_directory, exist_ok=True)
for x in range(1, 852):
input_file_name = f"final.{x}.txt"
output_file_name = os.path.join(output_directory, f"final.{x}.txt")
with open(input_file_name) as input_file:
with open(output_file_name, "w") as output_file:
for input_line in input_file:
output_line = input_line.strip()
output_file.write(output_line + "\n")