Regex driving me crazy...

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-04-07, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can someone make me un-crazy?

Definitely.  Regex is driving you crazy, so don't use a regex.

  inputString = "# 1  Short offline       Completed without error     00%       679         -"
  
  print ' '.join(inputString.split()[4:-3])

> So any ideas on what the best way to proceed with this would be?

Anytime you have a problem with a regex, the first thing you should
ask yourself:  "do I really, _really_ need a regex?

Hint: the answer is usually "no".

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