[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Extract the application name with version from an RPM string like > hpsmh-1.1.1.2-0-RHEL3-Linux.RPM, i require to extract hpsmh-1.1.1.2-0 > from above string. Sometimes the RPM string may be hpsmh-1.1.1.2-RHEL3- > Linux.RPM. >
Have a try with import re P=re.compile(r'(\w+(?:[-.]\d+)+)-RHEL3-Linux\.RPM') S="hpsmh-1.1.1.2-0-RHEL3-Linux.RPM" PO= P.match(S) if PO : print PO.group(1) -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
