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Extracting Data With Regular Expressions Finding Numbers in a Haystack In this assignment you will read through and parse a file with text and numbers. You will extract all the numbers in the file and compute the sum of the numbers. Data Files We provide two files for this assignment. One is a sample file where we give you the sum for your testi…
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import re
hand = open("regex_sum_24962.txt")
x=list()
for line in hand:
y = re.findall('[0-9]+',line)
x = x+y
sum=0
for z in x:
sum = sum + int(z)
print(sum)
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rim12345615 commented Mar 15, 2026

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Actual data: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/regex_sum_2371597.txt (There are 82 values and the sum ends with 487
sum end with 487
i need help with this.

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LeDonBobo commented Mar 16, 2026

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Actual data: http://py4e-data.dr-chuck.net/regex_sum_2371597.txt (There are 82 values and the sum ends with 487 sum end with 487 i need help with this.

You can copy paste my program and replace "Your_file_name" by your URL, it should work.
Ps: don't forget to indent correctly ;)

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