On 15/06/2013 10:42, subhabangal...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Group,
I am trying to search the following pattern in Python.
I have following strings:
(i)"In the ocean"
(ii)"On the ocean"
(iii) "By the ocean"
(iv) "In this group"
(v) "In this group"
(vi) "By the new group"
.....
I want to extract from the first word to the last word,
where first word and last word are varying.
I am looking to extract out:
(i) the
(ii) the
(iii) the
(iv) this
(v) this
(vi) the new
.....
The problem may be handled by converting the string to list and then
index of list.
But I am thinking if I can use regular expression in Python.
If any one of the esteemed members can help.
Thanking you in Advance,
Regards,
Subhabrata
I tend to reach for string methods rather than an RE so will something
like this suit you?
c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>type a.py
for s in ("In the ocean",
"On the ocean",
"By the ocean",
"In this group",
"In this group",
"By the new group"):
print(' '.join(s.split()[1:-1]))
c:\Users\Mark\MyPython>a
the
the
the
this
this
the new
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