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pythonstringextractquotes
user3240059
user3240059

Reputation: 9

Python get the string in quotes

Hello I have file data as specified below 

ID=3161
Author=Mark 
Context= "eric
speaking 
to 
mark 
about 
goldeninfo"
tag = "dramatic"
type = novel

I would like to extract any information represented in quotes. I was able to extract the information specifyed in quotes for tag but I'm not able to get the information for content using the below regex.

I would like to extract value if the specified in quotes else I would like to extract the value not in quotes. Open for suggestions.

quoted = re.compile('"[^"].*"')
if value in quoted.findall(string): 
  extract it 


elif value not in quoted.findall(string):
   #extract it

Thanks

Output expected : 
Context= "eric speaking to mark about goldeninfo"
tag = "dramatic"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 190

Answers (2)

James Sapam
James Sapam

Reputation: 16940

How about this:

>>> match = re.findall('"(.*?)"', string, re.DOTALL)
>>> ' '.join(match[0].split('\n'))
'eric speaking  to  mark  about  goldeninfo' 
>>>
>>> match[1]
'dramatic'
>>>

Upvotes: 1

tobias_k
tobias_k

Reputation: 82899

Note that your regex means "a character other than " followed by any number of any character", and not (as I suppose you intended) "any number of characters other than ""

Also note that [^"] includes newlines, whereas . does not.

Instead, try '"[^"]*"'.

>>> print re.findall('"[^"]*"', string)
['"eric\nspeaking \nto \nmark \nabout \ngoldeninfo"', '"dramatic"']

Upvotes: 0

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