On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:05:01 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:42:55 -0700, subhabangalore 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. > > No need for a regular expression. > > py> sentence = "By the new group" > py> words = sentence.split() > py> words[1:-1] > ['the', 'new'] > > Does that help?
I thought OP wanted: words[words[0],words[-1]] But that might be just my caffeine deprived misinterpretation of his terminology. -- Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
