[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?
You don't really need regular expressions for this simple transformation:
na="Abc | def | ghi | jkl [gugu]"
na=" ".join([x.strip() for x in na.replace("[","|").replace("]","").split("|")])
-Larry
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