It seems very simple split it and then rfind to the first slash and slice the rest.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahmed, Shakir wrote: > >> I need to grab/parse numeric numbers such as app number from incoming >> emails stored in Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft Exchange server) with >> specified subject line. >> > > The email body is like this >> >> >> myregion ; tst ; 11-Aug-2008 >> >> >> http://my.xyz.com/dddd/content/ifs/apps/myDocFolder/NoticeOfapplication/080612-21_test_337683.pdf >> > > >> I need to extract 080612-21 _ number from above line from incoming emails. >> >> > You're underspecifying this a bit. Are you asking for > help with reading emails? Or with finding a number in > a load of text? > > > The answer to the first is: use COM to automate Outlook/CDO. > > The answer to the second is probably to use a simple regex. > Unless the format is so simply specified that you can > just use split () and string slicing. > > TJG > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 > -- http://www.goldwatches.com/
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