This is a very basic question, but I'm very new to python. I want to read data in a file. The data is between two delimiters. I'm not exactly sure how I can extract the data and skip the delimiters. Any help would be great.
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vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
You can use this little function ...
def extract(text, sub1, sub2):
"""
extract a substring from text between first
occurances of substrings sub1 and sub2
"""
return text.split(sub1, 1)[-1].split(sub2, 1)[0]
str1 = "<a href='http://www.google.com'>more stuff here</a>"
str2 = extract(str1, "='", "'>")
print( str1 )
print( str2 ) # http://www.google.com Be a part of the DaniWeb community
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