Extract a string from a url field in python or SQL [duplicate]

Question

i want to return the barcode number after ''newreg' in the URL. The string is not same len everytime

Would appreciate any help here

Thanks

Does this answer your question? Retrieving parameters from a URL — Tom
– Tom, Commented Feb 8, 2020 at 2:10

hod · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-08 02:16:12Z

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Why not just use simple split() ?

url = 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?newreg=12f6529a5b3449c3be1d14458a4657ef'
barcode = url.split('=')[-1]

Hope this helps!

answered Feb 8, 2020 at 2:16

hod

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