Extract value from a attribute in a string

[inFocus@sl.com]

Hello,

I am looking for some help in reading a large text tile and extracting
a value from an attribute? so I would need to find name=foo and
extract just the value foo which can be at any location in the string.
The attribute name will be in almost each line.

Thank you for any suggestions.

[Gabriel Genellina]

Re: Extract value from a attribute in a string

En Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:45:22 -0200, <inFocus@sl.com escribió:

I am looking for some help in reading a large text tile and extracting
a value from an attribute? so I would need to find name=foo and
extract just the value foo which can be at any location in the string.
The attribute name will be in almost each line.

In this case a regular expression may be the right tool. See

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html

pyimport re
pytext = """ok name=foo
.... in this line name=bar but
.... here you get name = another thing
.... is this what you want?"""
pyfor match in re.finditer(r"n ame\s*=\s*(\S+) ", text):
.... print match.group(1)
....
foo
bar
another

--
Gabriel Genellina

[inFocus@sl.com]

Re: Extract value from a attribute in a string

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:13:31 -0200, "Gabriel Genellina"
<gagsl-py2@yahoo.com.a rwrote:

>En Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:45:22 -0200, <inFocus@sl.com escribió:
>

>I am looking for some help in reading a large text tile and extracting
>a value from an attribute? so I would need to find name=foo and
>extract just the value foo which can be at any location in the string.
>The attribute name will be in almost each line.

>
>In this case a regular expression may be the right tool. See
>http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html
>
>pyimport re
>pytext = """ok name=foo
>... in this line name=bar but
>... here you get name = another thing
>... is this what you want?"""
>pyfor match in re.finditer(r"n ame\s*=\s*(\S+) ", text):
>... print match.group(1)
>...
>foo
>bar
>another

Thank you very much.