Regex question
darrell
dgallion1 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 18 22:37:15 EDT 2002
s="Name:AAA,BBB,CCC"
print re.split(":|,", s)
print re.findall("[^:,]+", s)
['Name', 'AAA', 'BBB', 'CCC']
['Name', 'AAA', 'BBB', 'CCC']
--Darrell
Eric Arnold wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to figure out why this is not working, and wonder if there are
> any regexperts out there who can give me a pointer.
>
> The string I'm capturing is as follows:
>
> Name:AAA,BBB,CCC
>
> where I'd like to extract the following data:
>
> <eventName>: Name
> <eventParam 1>: AAA
> <eventParam 2>: BBB
> <eventParam 3>: CCC
>
> this is the regular expression I wrote to do so:
>
> (?<eventName>.*):(?<eventParam>([^,]*(?=,))|((?<=,)[^,]*))+
>
> I tried it with the (?<=,) as another (?=,) too, but no luck. I imagine
> that the problem is that when the (?=) is used once, it can't be used with
> the second group, but I don't know a way around that.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric
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