On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 14:48 +0530, Udaya Kumar wrote: > How are you? If this is related to office work, then you owe me! :) > Check whether this fits your req.
Yeah :) I owe you a drink party!! > result = re.findall("\w+=.+?(?=\s+\w+=|\s+})",feedstr,re.M|re.I|re.X) wow!! I never thought there is a direct regex solution. thank you very much. Also, I fixed it today using space-to-underscore-inside-quotes approach. here is the code, [code] #!/usr/bin/env python import re line = '{ SourceID=JP000456712 Ric=0388.HK BuyQty=3800.0 TradeTime="2014-06-17 13:54:19" DestID="" ExchangeTransCode="65725497 89897456 523 1" Account="PTBHK01" }' line = re.match("^.*{ (.*) }.*$', line).groups()[0] print dict([word.split('=') for word in re.sub('("(?:[^ "]+ *)+")', lambda x: x.groups()[0].replace(' ', '_'), data).split(' ')]) [/code] This is not a straight forward regex solution, not sure this can be achieved in other languages. Anyway thanks for all those replied and took time to provide a solution. Thanks, Mohan R _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines