In <[email protected]> "Joseph L. Casale"
<[email protected]> writes:
> Trying to robustly parse a string that will have key/value pairs separated
> by three pipes, where each additional key/value (if more than one exists)
> will be delineated by four more pipes.
> string = 'key_1|||value_1||||key_2|||value_2'
> regex = '((?:(?!\|\|\|).)+)(?:\|\|\|)((?:(?!\|\|\|).)+)(?:\|\|\|\|)?'
> I am not convinced this is the most effective or safest, any opinions would
> be greatly appreciated!
Regexes may be overkill here. A simple string split might be better:
string = 'key_1|||value_1||||key_2|||value_2'
pairs = string.split('||||')
for pair in pairs:
keyval = pair.split('|||')
print '%s=%s' % (keyval[0], keyval[1])
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