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surajz
surajz

Reputation: 3601

negate group using regular expression

I want to use regular expression to extract content by negating a group (instead of doing search and replace)

To get a Infobox block I am using the following regex.

(\{\{Infobox(?:.*?)^\}\})

How do I negate that group, so that text without the infobox is returned. I have tried many combination like

(.*(?!(?:\{\{Infobox(?:.*?)^\}\})).*)

Here is a sample text that I am trying to extract.

<username>Majorclanger</username>
<id>817248</id>
</contributor>
<minor />
<comment>rm unneeded hyphen</comment>
<text xml:space="preserve">{{sprotected2}}
{{Infobox MLB player
| birthplace = {{city-state|Riverside|California}}
| debutdate = May 30
| debutyear = 1986
}}

==Early life==
{{Infobox Person
|parents       = 
|relatives     = 
|signature     = 
|website       = 
}}

Born in {{city-state|Riverside|California}}, Bonds grew up in {{city-state|San Carlos|California}} and attended

Upvotes: 0

Views: 274

Answers (1)

Junuxx
Junuxx

Reputation: 14251

It might depend on the regex dialect of the language you're working with, in Python you could do the following:

pattern = re.compile('{{Infobox.*?\n}}', re.DOTALL)
print re.sub(pattern, '', s)

Upvotes: 1

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