Module re, extract on string match

[Timothy Grant]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Sriram Rajan <sriramrajan at acm.org> wrote:
> I am wondering if I can use re.search to extract from a particular
> location in a string.
> Example:
>  string1='/Users/sriram/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file'
>  re.search ('folder3,string1)
>
>  <Extract /folder3/folder4/folder5/file>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sriram

Something like below?

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:16)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
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>>> import re
>>> s = '/Users/sriram/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file'
>>> y = re.search('folder3.*', s)
>>> y.group()
'folder3/folder4/folder5/file'
>>>


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tjg. [Timothy Grant]