Python File - Word Search Program

This file management functions searches for a specific word in a text file.

• Reads the file line by line and checks for word presence.
• Prints whether the word was found or not.

# Open the file in read mode

file = open("students.txt", "r")

# Get the word to search from the user

word_to_search = input("Enter the word to search: ")

# Initialize a flag to indicate if the word is found

word_found = False

# Read the file line by line

for line in file:

    # Remove leading and trailing whitespace

    line = line.strip()

    # Split the line into words

    words = line.split()

    # Check if the word is present in the current line

    if word_to_search in words:

        word_found = True

        print("Word found")

        break  # Stop searching once the word is found

# If the word is not found, print a message

if not word_found:

    print("Word not found in the file.")

Output of program:

Enter the word to search: amit

Word found

Following is the content of students.txt file.

NAME AGE ADDRESS

amit 24 usa

sunit 26 canada

kuntal 25 india

bhavin 27 india

* * * * * 

Program Using User Defined Functions

def search_word(filename, word):

    try:

        with open(filename, "r") as f:

            found = False

            for line in f:

                if word in line.lower():

                    found = True

                    break

        if found:

            print(f"Word '{word}' found in {filename}")

        else:

            print(f"Word '{word}' not found in {filename}")

    except FileNotFoundError:

        print("File not found!")

if __name__ == "__main__":

    filename = input("Enter file name: ")

    word = input("Enter word to search: ")

    search_word(filename, word)

Output of program:

Enter file name: products.txt
Enter word to search: pen
Word 'pen' found in products.txt

Note: I have saved this python program and a products.txt file in same folder.

Content of products.txt file.

pen,10,50

pencil,20,25 

sketchbook,20,10

notebook,10,30

* * * * *