Parsing delimited string in python 3 [duplicate]

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How would parse out a pipe delimited string in Python 3.0? My application is reading various barcodes in a random fashion. The barcodes are as below:

var = '07|415674|88881234564|3326'

I need to evaluate the length of each parsed variable and determine the one barcode I'm looking for.

Thanks for you help! TC

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Mark · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-29 13:55:49Z

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You can do something like:

values = '07|415674|88881234564|3326'
findLength = 4

for val in values.split("|"):
    if(len(val) == findLength):
        print("Found: " + val)

This splits the string on | and loops through the resulting array, checking the length of each value and printing it if it matches the findLength variable.

answered Oct 29, 2018 at 13:55

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todd328 Over a year ago

Thank you! Exactly what I needed...

samlli · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-29 13:55:35Z

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Using the string.split() method you can give it a delimiter to split on. In this case

var.split('|')

will split var at every pipe and returns a list of strings

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