[Solved] Open and read all text Files in your directory and filter them using regular expression, python
This is using glob rather than listdir, but this might be a possible method. No regular expressions involved here either though. import glob folder_path = “C:\Temp” file_pattern = “\*.txt” search_string = “hello” match_list = [] folder_contents = glob.glob(folder_path + file_pattern) for file in folder_contents: print(“Checking”, file) read_file = open(file, ‘rt’).read() if search_string in read_file: match_list.append(file) … Read more