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Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe

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What about skipping the re and try this:

'start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|'.split('|')[1][3:]

On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote:
> 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap <amankashyap1223@gmail.com>:
>> I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" special character too.
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|
>>
>> I want to only |ID=ter54rt543d| from the above string but i am unable to write the  pattern match containing "|" pipe too.
>>
>> By default python treat "|" as an OR operator.
>>
>> But in my case I want to use to as a part of search string.
>> --
> Hi,
> you can just escpape the pipe with backlash like any other metacharacter:
>
> r"start=\|ID=ter54rt543d"
>
> be sure to use the raw string notation r"...", or you can double all
> backslashes in the string.
>
> hth,
>     vbr

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Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Aman Kashyap <amankashyap1223@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 03:59 -0700
  Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 13:09 +0200
    Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Aman Kashyap <amankashyap1223@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 04:20 -0700
  Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Daniel <5960761@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 14:29 +0300
    Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Aman Kashyap <amankashyap1223@gmail.com> - 2014-05-27 04:39 -0700
      Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2014-05-27 13:55 +0200
        Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-05-27 08:35 -0400
      Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-27 14:06 +0100

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