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chanchal118
chanchal118

Reputation: 3647

Extract a string after some string

I have a text paragraph my_text which contains lines like 

........ licensed in Bangladesh. We are happy to announce ......................
................................................

I want to extract the word "Bangladesh" from it. To decide if i want that word depends upon the presence of "licensed in" in the sentence.

Current code is like:

texts = my_text.split("licensed in")
# extract the word before the first dot (.) from texts[1]

What is more appropriate way to do it in python?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

Answers (2)

orakaro
orakaro

Reputation: 1971

How about

>>> my_text.split('licensed in ')[1].split('.')[0]
'Bangladesh'

Upvotes: 0

Tim Pietzcker
Tim Pietzcker

Reputation: 336158

That's a job for a regex:

import re
location = re.search(r"licensed in ([^.]*)", my_text).group(1)

Explanation:

licensed\ in\   # Match "licensed in "
(               # Match and capture in group 1:
 [^.]*          # Any number of characters except dots.
)               # End of capturing group 1

Upvotes: 2

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