John Abel wrote:
> Does anyone know of a quick way of performing this:
>
> $testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##g
Use the re (regular expression) module. Since you are iterating over a lot of
entries, it is good to compile the regular expression outside of the loop.
>>> import re
>>> mailRE = re.compile('/mail/.*$')
>>>
>>> myList = ['/var/mail/joe', '/var/spool/mail/bob']
>>> remainderList = []
>>>
>>> for testVar in myList:
... remainderList.append(mailRE.sub('', testVar))
...
>>> print '\n'.join(remainderList)
/var
/var/spool
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