[Tutor] Regex

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I forgot to mention the assignment asks to try to solve via regex and I don't know the length of the string. It's a large system log file and I have to parse through each line and extract the sentence that follows the word ERROR. Sorry for not mentioning that.

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Sent: May 4, 2021 6:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [Tutor] Regex

On 04/05/2021 10:51, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
>>>> s = "Jan 31 01:33:12 ubuntu.local ticky: ERROR Tried to add
> information to closed ticket (mcintosh)"
>>>> start = s.index('ERROR')
>>>> end = s.index('ticket')+len('ticket')
>>>> s[start:end]
> 'ERROR Tried to add information to closed ticket'
>>>>

Following up my own post...

find() would be better than index() here since it returns -1 if not
found - which will work on the slice to give the whole remaining string...

Also I should have included start in the second search:

start = s.find('ERROR')
end = s.find('ticket',start)+len('ticket')
s[start:end]


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