On 01/11/2013 21:33, Captain Dunsel wrote:
I have a text file that has lines with numbers occasionally appearing right
before a person's name. For example:
COLLEGE:ENROLLMENT:COMPLETED EVALUATIONS:624309FUDD, ELMER
where I want to search for the name "ELMER FUDD" and extract the number right in front of it
"608309" when such a number appears but the length of the number is variable and using
?<= in a regular expression will only search for a fixed length.
Any ideas appreciated!
As you've had answers here's some references for future use
http://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html,
https://wiki.python.org/moin/RegularExpression and
http://www.regular-expressions.info/python.html
Also, the new regex package is an alternative to the stdlib re package.
It's available from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
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