I need to one give me the string between ~ and ^
i have string like this
:::ABC???,:::DEF???
I need to get the string between them with python
I want to do all this because i am trying to extract text from an html page. like this example
<td class="cell-1">
<div><span class="value-frame"> ~ABC^,~DEF^</span></div>
</td>
It seems like you want ABC and DEF , so you need write re like this (.*?)
import re
target = ' <td class="cell-1"><div><span class="value-frame"> ~ABC^,~DEF^</span></div></td>'
matchObj = re.findall(r'~(.*?)\^', target)
print matchObj
# ['ABC', 'DEF']
you can learn more about re module
(.*?) ?You can use the isalpha() function in a generator expression. Then combine the characters as a single string using join().
def extract_string(s):
return ''.join(i for i in s if i.isalpha())
Sample output:
print extract_string(':::ABC???,:::DEF???')
>>> ABCDEF
However that is only for extracting all characters, if you want to extract only characters between ~...^:
import re
def extract_string(s):
match = re.findall(r"~([a-zA-z]*)\^", s)
return match
Sample output:
s = ' ~ABC^,~DEF^'
print extract_string(s)
>>> ['ABC', 'DEF']
Just a side note: if you're parsing HTML using regex and/or string manipulation, as the famous S.O. reply suggests, please use a HTML parser; such as the Beautiful Soup library instead :D!
