On Saturday, June 15, 2013 3:12:55 PM UTC+5:30, subhaba...@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
Dear Group, Thank you for the answer. But I want to learn bit of interesting regular expression forms where may I? No Mark, thank you for your links but they were not sufficient. I am looking for more intriguing exercises, esp use of or in the pattern search. Regards, Subhabrata. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
