In Perl, it was:
## Example: "Abc | def | ghi | jkl" ## -> "Abc ghi jkl" ## Take only the text betewwn the 2nd pipe (=cut the text in the 1st pipe). $na =~ s/\ \|(.*?)\ \|(.*?)\ \|/$2/g; ## -- remove [ and ] in text $na =~ s/\[//g; $na =~ s/\]//g; # print "DEB: \"$na\"\n"; # input string na="Abc | def | ghi | jkl [gugu]" # output na="Abc ghi jkl gugu" How is it done in Python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list