Here's my take on that:
loc = re.search('for\s+(\w+)', string).group(1)
Not much different, really, but it does allow for multiple spaces (\s+) as
well as requiring at least one character in the word (\w+), and I use a
matching group to extract the location directly instead of splitting the
string "by hand".
:) David
On Saturday 15 May 2010 8:38:01 am Xavier Ho wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, timo verbeek
<timoverbee...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On May 15, 1:02 pm, timo verbeek <timoverbee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Place starts always with for
>
> Okay, much better.
>
> Given that constraint, it looks like regular expression can do the job. I'm
> not very experienced with regex, though.
>
> \w* matches a whole word composed of letters and numbers by default.
>
> >>> result = re.search('for \w*', 'Give me the weather for London please.')
> >>> result.group()
>
> 'for London'
>
> >>> result.group().split()[1]
>
> 'London'
>
> Cheers,
> Xav
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