Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'string.': 0.05; 'string': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; '"|"': 0.16; '12:59': 0.16; 'backslashes': 0.16; 'notation': 0.16; 'operator.': 0.16; 'paragraphs,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; "skip:' 60": 0.16; 'skipping': 0.16; 'spacing': 0.16; 'subject:Regular': 0.16; 'prevent': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thanks.': 0.20; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'url:moin': 0.24; '---': 0.24; 'daniel': 0.26; 'this:': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; 'character': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'too.': 0.31; 'url:wiki': 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'pipe': 0.31; 'regular': 0.32; 'url:python': 0.33; 'raw': 0.33; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'but': 0.35; 'url:listinfo': 0.36; 'thanks': 0.36; 'hi,': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'e.g.': 0.38; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.38; 'sure': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'unable': 0.39; 'mailing': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'read': 0.60; 'expression': 0.60; 'free': 0.61; 'viruses': 0.61; 'protection': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'response.': 0.68; 'antivirus': 0.68; 'containing': 0.69; 'default': 0.69; 'special': 0.74; 'received:2': 0.84; 'skip:| 10': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 14:06:18 +0100 References: <9c8e58be-9619-44c7-8098-961a0134c422@googlegroups.com> <3cc77455-39ed-4403-a46c-5dd8e640a483@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-2-98-196-77.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <3cc77455-39ed-4403-a46c-5dd8e640a483@googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 140527-0, 27/05/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 82 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1401195996 news.xs4all.nl 2901 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:52907 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:72116 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 : >> >>>> 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 > > 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]*\\| > I'm pleased to see that you have answers. In return would you please use the mailing list https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list or read and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing double line spacing and single line paragraphs, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com