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

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On 27.05.2014 13:39, Aman Kashyap wrote:
>> On 27.05.2014 14:09, Vlastimil Brom wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I got the answer finally.
>
> This is the regular expression to be used:\\|ID=[a-z]*[0-9]*[a-z]*[0-9]*[a-z]*\\|
>

or, and more readable:

r'\|ID=[a-z]*[0-9]*[a-z]*[0-9]*[a-z]*\|'

This is what Vlastimil was talking about. It saves you from having to 
escape the backslashes.

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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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