On 30 jul, 15:07, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Beldar wrote: > > Hi there! > > > I have a problem and i'm not very good at regular expressions. > > I have a text like "lalala lalala tiruri beldar-is-listening tiruri > > lalala" I need a regexp to get the 'beldar' part, the format is > > 'something-is-listening', i need to get the something part, use it in > > my code, and then replace the whole 'something-is-listening' for > > another string. > > \w+ will match a word and enclosing it in (...) will capture what was > matched: > > m = re.search(r"(\w+)-is-listening", text) > print "Captured '%s'" % m.group(1) > print "Matched from %d to %d" % (m.start(), m.end())
Ok, thank you all, it was very helpful! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
