f = open("times.lvl","r+") lvm = open(f"include/define.h","r") ids=f.readlines() names=[] for i in ids: names.append(i.rstrip()) for i in range(int(''.join(list(filter(str.isdigit, lvm.readline()))))): hop=names[i].find("-") if hop!=-1: names[i]=names[i][hop+1:] else: names[i]="" print(names)