On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:23 AM, <subhabangal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a string like > > "Trump is $ the president of USA % Obama was $ the president of USA % Putin > is $ the premier of Russia%" > > Here, I want to extract the portions from $...%, which would be > > "the president of USA", > "the president of USA", > "the premier of Russia" > > and would work some post extraction jobs, like I may split them or annotate > them and may replace them > back to its own position with the edited string. >
The simplest solution would be a regex. Have a shot at it and see how you go; if you get stuck, post code. > I am using Python2.7.12 on MS-Windows 7 Any particular reason you're not using Python 3? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
