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professorz
professorz

Reputation: 43

Extract names around each word regex

There is a string 

Mary loves Mike,Jack loves Lily,Ethan loves Lydia

I want to extract the names around each loves with python.But the code below can't work.

names = re.search(r'(\S+) loves (\S+)',str, ) 
while names: 
    print names.group(1) 
    print names.group(2)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 75

Answers (2)

techy
techy

Reputation: 391

You can use \w+ to extract words. And also since you want to extract all the matches, you can use a find all.

str="Mary loves Mike,Jack loves Lily,Ethan loves Lydia";
names = re.findall("(\w+) loves (\w+)", str)
for name in  names:
        print name

Upvotes: 1

jamylak
jamylak

Reputation: 133504

>>> import re
>>> re.findall(r"([a-zA-Z]+) loves ([a-zA-Z]+)", "Mary loves Mike,Jack loves Lily,Ethan loves Lydia")
[('Mary', 'Mike'), ('Jack', 'Lily'), ('Ethan', 'Lydia')]

Upvotes: 9

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