On 9 Nov 2006 07:45:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a string containing: "+abc_cde.fgh_jkl\n" and what I need to > become is "abc_cde.fgh_jkl". Could anybody be so kind and write me a > code of how to extract this text from that string? > for that particular string >>> "+abc_cde.fgh_jkl\n"[1:-1] 'abc_cde.fgh_jkl' >>> "+abc_cde.fgh_jkl\n".strip()[1:] 'abc_cde.fgh_jkl' >>> "+abc_cde.fgh_jkl\n"[1:].strip() 'abc_cde.fgh_jkl' >>> "+abc_cde.fgh_jkl\n"[1:].strip().replace('+','') 'abc_cde.fgh_jkl' >>> "+abc_cde.fgh_jkl\n"[1:].replace('\n','').replace('+','') 'abc_cde.fgh_jkl' I'm sure there are other ways too !! HTH :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list