Regular Expressions

[Ed Suominen]

m = sre.search('(\d+)\s+\"[\w\'][,\s]+([\w\'])', s)
x = (int(m.group(1)), group(2), group(3)) 

- Ed Suominen

achaljalan at yahoo.com wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> I have a string
> 
>         s =740446505        "O'HANLON, Benjamin"
> 
> i need to use one RE to convert it into
>   
>        (740446505, "O'HANLN", "Benjamin"),
> 
> I am using python 2.3 and have been stuydin the various tutotrials and the
> howto websites for the past 3 days and haven't managed to find a solution.
> 
> Any help to get to the solution will be very very helpful.
> 
> Thanks in advance for all the help.
> 
> Achal Jalan
> 
> 
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