1) In perl: $line = "The food is under the bar in the barn."; if ( $line =~ /foo(.*)bar/ ) { print "got <$1>\n"; }
in python, I don't know how I can do this?
I don't know Perl very well, but I believe this is more or less the equivalent:
>>> import re >>> line = "The food is under the bar in the barn." >>> matcher = re.compile(r'foo(.*)bar') >>> match = matcher.search(line) >>> print 'got <%s>' % match.group(1) got <d is under the bar in the >
Of course, you can do this in fewer lines if you like:
>>> print 'got <%s>' % re.search(r'foo(.*bar)', line).group(1) got <d is under the bar in the bar>
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