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Sonne
Sonne

Reputation: 691

Selecting text after regex match

I'm really stuck with regex in python. I have a string with items like this:

"""
(001,002) SI [SomeTag]:Element
(001,003e) LO [SomeTag2]:Element2
(001,004r) LR [SomeTag3]:Element3
(001,006) HI [SomeTag4]:Element4
"""

And I want to select "Element2". I tried to select the line with

me = re.search("\(001,003e\)(.*)", obj)

And it gives me the whole line. But I just want "Element2". How can I select everything in the line that regex matches (e.g "(001,003e)") that is after the ':'.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 852

Answers (1)

Augusto
Augusto

Reputation: 29867

Adding the comment above as an aswer:

You can use a negated character class and use \(001,003e\)[^:]*:(.*). The second group will return 'Element2'.

Upvotes: 2

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