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

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On 27/05/2014 12:39, Aman Kashyap wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:59:38 UTC+5:30, Daniel  wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>>>
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>>>> e.g.
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>>>>
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>>>> 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
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>>> backslashes in the string.
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>>>
>>
>>> hth,
>>
>>>      vbr
>
> 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]*\\|
>

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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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