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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting a value that follows string.find()
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:58:02 +0000 (UTC)
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In <40816fed-38d4-4baa-92cc-c80cd8febd82@googlegroups.com> englishkevin110@gmail.com writes:

> I know the title doesn't make much sense, but I didnt know how to explain my problem.

> Anywho, I've opened a page's source in URLLIB
> starturlsource = starturlopen.read()
> string.find(starturlsource, '<a href="/profile.php?id=')
> And I used string.find to find a specific area in the page's source.
> I want to store what comes after ?id= in a variable.
> Can someone help me with this?

starturlsource = starturlopen.read()

match_string = '<a href="/profile.php?id='

match_index = string.find(starturlsource, match_string)

if match_index != -1:
    url = starturlsource[match_index + len(match_string):]

else:
    print 'not found'

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