Regular expressions question

[Jussi Salmela]

Victor Polukcht kirjoitti:
> I have 2 strings:
> 
> "Global               etsi3   *200 ok            30   100% 100%
> Outgoing"
> and
> "Global               etsi3   *   4 ok             30   100% 100%
> Outgoing"
> 
> The difference is "*200" instead of "*  4". Is there ability to write a
> regular expression that will match both of that strings?
> 

If the goal is not to study regular expressions, here's a solution 
without them. Not so short, but working.

lst = [
     "Global               etsi3   *200 ok            30   100% 100% 
Outgoing",
     "Global               etsi3   *   4 ok             30   100% 100% 
Outgoing"]

for e in lst:
     es = e.split()
     if len(es) == 9:
         num_val = es[3]
     else:
         num_val = es[2][1:]
     print es[0], num_val, es[-3], es[-2]


Cheers,
Jussi