Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #72110

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

References <9c8e58be-9619-44c7-8098-961a0134c422@googlegroups.com>
Date 2014-05-27 13:09 +0200
Subject Re: Regular Expression for the special character "|" pipe
From Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.10368.1401188967.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

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

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web