On 4/21/05, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
string.between(data,[,])
def between(data, start, end):
return re.findall(re.escape(start) + r'([^]]*)'+ re.escape(end), data)
That's cool! But it doesn't quite work if the end tag is not ']':
>>> import re >>> def between(data, start, end): ... return re.findall(re.escape(start) + r'([^]]*)'+ re.escape(end), data) ... >>> foo = '''<stuff> [lsass.exe] ... [System] <more> stuff ... xxxxx<qqq> [firefox.exe] ...... ... ''' >>> print between(foo, '[', ']') ['lsass.exe', 'System', 'firefox.exe'] >>> print between(foo, '<', '>') ['stuff', 'more> stuff\nxxxxx<qqq']
Here's a revised version that will work with other tags:
>>> def between2(data, start, end):
... pattern = re.escape(start) + ' # start tag \n' +\
... r'([^' + re.escape(end) + r']*)' + " # anything except end tag \n" +\
... re.escape(end) + ' # end tag \n'
... return re.findall(pattern, data, re.VERBOSE)
...
>>> print between2(foo, '[', ']')
['lsass.exe', 'System', 'firefox.exe']
>>> print between2(foo, '<', '>')
['stuff', 'more', 'qqq']
Regards, Jim Sizelove -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
