On 03/11/2013 00:19, Captain Dunsel wrote:
On Friday, November 1, 2013 5:33:43 PM UTC-4, Captain Dunsel wrote:
I have a text file that has lines with numbers occasionally appearing right
before a person's name. For example:
COLLEGE:ENROLLMENT:COMPLETED EVALUATIONS:624309FUDD, ELMER
where I want to search for the name "ELMER FUDD" and extract the number right in front of it
"608309" when such a number appears but the length of the number is variable and using
?<= in a regular expression will only search for a fixed length.
Any ideas appreciated!
Thanks for your help, everyone!
My invoice, like the proverbial cheque, is in the post :)
Slight aside, in order to avoid the unwanted newlines above could you
please read and action this, thanks
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython
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