ok, so lets say I have
s = 'ABC Here DEF GHI toHere JKL'
and I want to get a new string with only the string between Here and toHere
new_str = 'DEF GHI'
(I dont know how many or which chars I have before Here or any where else)
I just know that I have Here and toHere in the string.
how can I get the new_str?
The simplest way is to use slicing:
s[s.find('Here') + len('Here') : s.find('toHere')]
#' DEF GHI '
You can .strip() off the white space from the result if you want.
This might be useful using index
str1 = 'ABC Here DEF GHI toHere JKL'
try:
start=str1.index('Here')+len('Here')
end=str1.index('toHere')
print(str1[start:end].strip())
except ValueError:
print('Either of the substring not found')
You can use enumerate and .split() to grab the proper indexes for your new slice, then ' '.join() that new slice
s = 'ABC Here DEF GHI toHere JKL'
s = s.split()
for i, v in enumerate(s):
if v == 'Here':
start = i + 1
if v == 'toHere':
end = i
print(' '.join(s[start:end]))
# DEF GHI
the simplest way is to use splitting (imho)
print(s.split("Here",1)[-1].split("toHere",1)[0])
of coarse if Here is not present or toHere is not present it will not work how you expect (it will suffer the same consequences as the other solutions)
import re;print(re.findall("Here(.*)toHere",target_string))... I guess