How do i replace a single number (from a set of lines) from a list of numbers?

Question

i am new to programming/macroing,etc and i would like to do this. Should i use word 2007 or Python or something else? i have only those two things currently.

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Answer 1

A simple Python script will work:

template = """hello how are you ref={}
ofdifaoididpodvjakjeoijknvkln
ikvnoivwoeij,vn,nviojv
nkavjoiewgkjvlkaior
"""

replace = [
    876191, 11166524, 1117225, 1116953, 798993,
    793519, 1116737, 1116691, 1116364, 1115635,
    909014, 760195, 689981, 604787, 1116217,
    1104482, 869990, 886290, 1115893]

print ''.join([template.format(r) for r in replace])

Which will display:

hello how are you ref=876191
ofdifaoididpodvjakjeoijknvkln
ikvnoivwoeij,vn,nviojv
nkavjoiewgkjvlkaior
hello how are you ref=11166524
ofdifaoididpodvjakjeoijknvkln
ikvnoivwoeij,vn,nviojv
nkavjoiewgkjvlkaior
hello how are you ref=1117225
ofdifaoididpodvjakjeoijknvkln
ikvnoivwoeij,vn,nviojv
nkavjoiewgkjvlkaior
.
.
.

and so on.

If you would like to write the output directly to a text file, the following will work:

with open('output.txt', 'w') as f_output:
    f_output.write(''.join([template.format(r) for r in replace]))

If you would also like to read the numbers from a text file, use the following:

with open('numbers.txt', 'r') as f_input, open('output.txt', 'w') as f_output:
    for number in f_input:
        f_output.write(template.format(number.strip()))