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  • linuxprog
    #1

    need help with re module

    hello

    i have that string "<html>hell o</a>world<anytag> ok" and i want to
    extract all the text , without html tags , the result should be some
    thing like that : helloworldok

    i have tried that :

    from re import findall

    chaine = """<html>he llo</a>world<anytag> ok"""

    print findall('[a-zA-z][^(<.*>)].+?[a-zA-Z]',chaine)
    >>['html', 'hell', 'worl', 'anyt', 'ag>o']
    the result is not correct ! what would be the correct regex to use ?



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    • Matimus
      #2
      Re: need help with re module

      On Jun 20, 9:58 am, linuxprog <linuxp...@gmai l.comwrote:
      hello
      >
      i have that string "<html>hell o</a>world<anytag> ok" and i want to
      extract all the text , without html tags , the result should be some
      thing like that : helloworldok
      >
      i have tried that :
      >
      from re import findall
      >
      chaine = """<html>he llo</a>world<anytag> ok"""
      >
      print findall('[a-zA-z][^(<.*>)].+?[a-zA-Z]',chaine)
      >
      >>['html', 'hell', 'worl', 'anyt', 'ag>o']
      >
      the result is not correct ! what would be the correct regex to use ?
      This: [^(<.*>)] is a set that contains everything but the characters
      "(","<",".","*" ,">" and ")". It most certainly doesn't do what you
      want it to. Is it absolutely necessary that you use a regular
      expression? There are a few HTML parsing libraries out there. The
      easiest approach using re might be to do a search and replace on all
      tags. Just replace the tags with nothing.

      Matt

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        • Matimus
          #3
          Re: need help with re module

          Here is an example:
          >>s = "<html>Hell o</a>world<anytag> ok"
          >>matchtags = re.compile(r"<[^>]+>")
          >>matchtags.fin dall(s)
          ['<html>', '</a>', '<anytag>']
          >>matchtags.sub ('',s)
          'Helloworldok'

          I probably shouldn't have shown you that. It may not work for all
          HTML, and you should probably be looking at something like
          BeautifulSoup.

          Matt

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