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| From | Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression |
| Date | 2013-06-15 10:24 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <kphfdr$su9$8@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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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, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com
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Pattern Search Regular Expression subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2013-06-15 02:42 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-06-15 10:05 +0000
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 10:24 +0000
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-15 11:55 +0100
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 04:28 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 13:41 +0000
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 13:45 +0000
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-15 15:28 +0100
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2013-06-15 07:31 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Andreas Perstinger <andipersti@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 17:01 +0200
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-15 16:04 +0100
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2013-06-15 09:28 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-15 17:39 +0100
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-06-15 16:24 -0400
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-15 11:18 +0100
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-06-15 09:59 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2013-06-15 10:54 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-06-15 11:47 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression subhabangalore@gmail.com - 2013-06-15 12:38 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression rurpy@yahoo.com - 2013-06-15 13:41 -0700
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 22:03 +0100
Re: Pattern Search Regular Expression Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-15 22:26 +0100
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