Regular Expression Syntax Help

[Ernesto]

I'm trying to get the right syntax for my regular expression. The
string I'm trying to parse is:

# myString
[USELESS DATA]
Name: David Dude
[USELESS DATA]

Right now, I'm using the following code:


pattern_Name= '''(?x)
Title:\s+(\w+)\ s+
'''
names = re.findall(patt ern_Name, myString)
print names

This prints out a list containing only the first names. I want to
search the string until it finds a '\n' endline, but I experimented
with that, and couldn't find what I need.

[Ernesto]

Re: Regular Expression Syntax Help

The word "Title" there should be "Name".

What I really need is the pattern for getting the entire string after
"Name: " until a '\n' is found.

[Raja Raman Sundararajan]

Re: Regular Expression Syntax Help

try this. maybe this is what you want?

reg = re.compile('Nam e:.*\\n', re.IGNORECASE)

[Ernesto]

Re: Regular Expression Syntax Help

So now I need to add the requirement that only "Name:" 's which are
followed by

"Request: Play" or "Request: Next" ANYWHERE between the previous titles
and the new titles. Can I use RE's for that ?


Ernesto wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm trying to get the right syntax for my regular expression. The
> string I'm trying to parse is:
>
> # myString
> [USELESS DATA]
> Name: David Dude
> [USELESS DATA]
>
> Right now, I'm using the following code:
>
>
> pattern_Name= '''(?x)
> Title:\s+(\w+)\ s+
> '''
> names = re.findall(patt ern_Name, myString)
> print names
>
> This prints out a list containing only the first names. I want to
> search the string until it finds a '\n' endline, but I experimented
> with that, and couldn't find what I need.[/color]

[Raja Raman Sundararajan]

Re: Regular Expression Syntax Help

Oh! yes you can use re for that.
You just need to change the pattern a bit

I did not understand where the "title" will be so I have ignored it,
but I got something below which will be helpful for you
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> value = """name:asasasa sas\nrequest: play\ntitle"""
>>> reg = re.compile('Nam e:.*\\nrequest: .....', re.IGNORECASE)
>>> re.findall(reg, value)[/color][/color][/color]
['name:asasasasa s\nrequest: play'][color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> value2 = """name:asasasa sas\nrequest: next\ntitle"""
>>> reg = re.compile('Nam e:.*\\nrequest: .....', re.IGNORECASE)
>>> re.findall(reg, value2)[/color][/color][/color]
['name:asasasasa s\nrequest: next'][color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]