On May 12, 2:21 am, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > johnny wrote: > > I need to get the content inside the bracket. > > > eg. some characters before bracket (3.12345). > > > I need to get whatever inside the (), in this case 3.12345. > > > How do you do this with python regular expression? > > >>> import re > >>> x = re.search("[0-9.]+", "(3.12345)") > >>> print x.group(0) > > 3.12345 > > There's a lot more to the re module, of course. I'd suggest reading the > manual, but this should get you started. >
>>> s = "some chars like 987 before the bracket (3.12345) etc" >>> x = re.search("[0-9.]+", s) >>> x.group(0) '987' OP sez: "I need to get the content inside the bracket" OP sez: "I need to get whatever inside the ()" My interpretation: >>> for s in ['foo(123)bar', 'foo(123))bar', 'foo()bar', 'foobar']: ... x = re.search(r"\([^)]*\)", s) ... print repr(x and x.group(0)[1:-1]) ... '123' '123' '' None -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list