Back9 wrote: > Hi, > > I have a string like this: > 0x340x5A0x9B0xBA > I want to extract 0x from the string but the first one. > > How I can use re for this case? > > The string size will vary. > > TIA > > Unless the use of a regular expression is a requirement I'd do it like this: '0x%s' % s.split ('x', 1)[1].replace ('x', '') Frederic