Florian Diesch schrieb: > "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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? > >>>> import re >>>> na="Abc | def | ghi | jkl [gugu]" >>>> m=re.match(r'(\w+ )\| (\w+ )\| (\w+ )\| (\w+ )\[(\w+)\]', na) >>>> na=m.expand(r'\1\2\3\5') >>>> na > 'Abc def ghi gugu'
I'd rather have the groups grouped without the whitespaces >>> import re >>> na="Abc | def | ghi | jkl [gugu]" >>> m=re.match(r'(\w+) \| (\w+) \| (\w+) \| (\w+) \[(\w+)\]', na) >>> na=m.expand(r'\1 \3 \4 \5') >>> na 'Abc ghi jkl gugu' Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
