Reg Expression - Get position of >

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On Nov 25, 4:33 pm, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n... at snipabacken.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:41:53 -0800 (PST), r <rt8... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 25, 10:36 am, M_H <heyer.ma... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey,
>
> >> I need the position of the last char >
>
> >> Let's say I have a string
> >> mystr =  <mimetype="text/html"><content><![CDATA[
>
> >> I need the posistion of the "> (second sign) - so I can cut away the
> >> first part.
>
> >> The problem is that it can be like "> but also like " > or "     >
>
> >> But it is def the quotes and the closing brakets.
>
> >> How do I get the position of the >  ????
>
> >> Hope you can help,
> >> Bacco
>
> > why not just spilt
>
> >>>> mystr =  '<mimetype="text/html"><content><![CDATA['
> >>>> mystr.split('>', 2)[-1]
> > '<![CDATA['
>
> > you don't want to use an re for something like this
>
> Depends on if you have an irrational fear of REs or not ... I agree
> that REs are overused for things which are better done with split, but
> in this case I think an RE would be clearer.
>
> >>> re.sub('.*>', '', 'dkjk>dj>>>>dd')
>
> 'dd'
>
> -- assuming he means what I think he means. The question was almost
> impossible to comprehend.
>
> /Jorgen
>
> --
>   // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@        Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu
> \X/     snipabacken.se>          R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

i think what M_H wanted was to find the second occurance of ">" char
in  mystr.
Now if mystr will always look exactly as show then Jorgen Grahn's re
will work fine. But it looks to me that the poster only showed us a
portion of the string, and as you can see the <mimetype tag is not
closed in mystr, which would break your re, if the string acually
extends further. Split would be fool-proof in all situations. But then
again i had to read the post 5 times before i understood it. It may be
advisable for M_H to repost the question in a clearer manner so that
we can be sure our answers are correct!