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Reputation: 219

Getting out of range while splitting values from list in python

I've list of string like below:

12345,abcd,03/03/2013,23,,32,EURRIE-373HFJ-DJDMKD|838383,ldof,09/02/2017,23,,32,DJJFJF-DJFH83-JDUEJD|939393,uejs,08/07/2016,23,,32,JDJFJF-UEJDKD-LEPEKD|

My code:

content = "12345,abcd,03/03/2013,23,,32,EURRIE-373HFJ-DJDMKD|838383,ldof,09/02/2017,23,,32,DJJFJF-DJFH83-JDUEJD|939393,uejs,08/07/2016,23,,32,JDJFJF-UEJDKD-LEPEKD|"

result = [content.split(',')[2] for content in content.split('|')]
for v in result[:-1]:
  print v

I want to print all second index element which is

03/03/2013
09/02/2017
08/07/2016

But I'm getting out of range error, what i'm doing wrong here.

Can someone help to fix this issue

Upvotes: 0

Views: 82

Answers (2)

MaximTitarenko
MaximTitarenko

Reputation: 886

You can use re:

import re

content = "12345,abcd,03/03/2013,23,,32,EURRIE-373HFJ-DJDMKD|838383,ldof,09/02/2017,23,,32,DJJFJF-DJFH83-JDUEJD|939393,uejs,08/07/2016,23,,32,JDJFJF-UEJDKD-LEPEKD|"
result = re.findall('\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4}', content)

Result:

for date in result:
    print date

# 03/03/2013
# 09/02/2017
# 08/07/2016

Also you can fix your code by filtering out empty elements after the 1st split:

result = [content.split(',')[2] for content in content.split('|') if len(content)]

Result:

for v in result:
    print v

# 03/03/2013
# 09/02/2017
# 08/07/2016

Upvotes: 1

Tiago1984
Tiago1984

Reputation: 61

When I tested your code, I found that content.split('|') was generating an empty last element that was responsible for the index error after the split. So I changed it for:

[content.split(',')[2] for content in content.split('|')[:-1]]

and got:

['03/03/2013', '09/02/2017', '08/07/2016']

Does that solve the issue for you?

Upvotes: 2

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