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Shady Atef
Shady Atef

Reputation: 2401

Python - Regex findall repeated pattern followed by variable length of chars

I have the following pattern:
1MHG161 xxxxxxxxxxxxx 1MHG161 xxx
where xxxx is variable length of chars & spaces.

I am trying to capture each one and have the following expected output:
[ '1MHG161 xxxxxxxxxxxxx ' , '1MHG161 xxx' ]

I have tried a lot of combination this is the last one

messages_strings = re.findall("(1MHG161.+?)(?=1MHG161)",content)

This finds all except the last one.

Edit 1:

I have taken @anubhava answer, a little bit further to solve the same problem but with dynamic delimiters by using \d[A-Z]{3}\d{3} instead of 1MHG161

This may help people working with EDI parsers.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 126

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 784958

You can use:

>>> re.findall(r"(1MHG161.+?)(?=1MHG161|$)", content)
['1MHG161  xxxxxxxxxxxxx  ', '1MHG161 xxx']

Lookahead (?=1MHG161|$) will match 1MHG161 or end of line anchor $ after your match.

Upvotes: 3

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