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Milister
Milister

Reputation: 658

Python Regular expressions to return line starting with specific string

i have this file (output.txt)

Username:traider

domain:domain.net

 
TECH-1366


Username:traider1

domain:domain.net

 
TECH-1367

I can get values after Username and domain

 traider,domain.net
 traider1,domain.net

but don't know how to get TECH-XXX

desired output:

traider,domain.net,TECH-1366
traider1,domain.net,TECH-1367

Code:

with open ("output.txt", "r") as myfile:
  data=myfile.read()

people = re.findall(r'\bUsername:(\S+)\s+domain:(\S+)\s', data)

for personinfo in people:
    print(','.join(personinfo))

I can return only [TECH] but it's incomplete and has brackets

tech =  re.findall(r'TECH-*', data)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 548

Answers (4)

Milister
Milister

Reputation: 658

Finally found why nothing above worked: it's because of ^M i had in file It's visible only when open it in vim, when open it using cat it's not visible,once removed it with 

sys.stdout = open('out.txt','wt')
with open ("output.txt", "r") as myfile:
  data=myfile.read()
print data.replace('\r','')

and using @Wiktor Stribiżew code:

people = re.findall(r'\bUsername:(\S+)\s+domain:(\S+)\s+First Name:(\S+)\s+Last Name:(\S+)\s+(TECH-\d+)', data)

i got desired results, thanks everyone !!

Upvotes: 0

handle
handle

Reputation: 6369

You don't need a Regular Expression for this, you can use the built-in str.split() and then e.g. a List Comprehension to "bundle" your data:

txt="""Username:traider

domain:domain.net


TECH-1366


Username:traider1

domain:domain.net


TECH-1367"""

l = txt.split()

#udt = [ l[i:i + 3] for i in range(0, len(l), 3)]
# equivalent to list-comprehension above
udt = []
for i in range(0, len(l), 3):
    udt.append( l[i:i + 3] )

print(udt)

prints

[['Username:traider', 'domain:domain.net', 'TECH-1366'], ['Username:traider1', 'domain:domain.net', 'TECH-1367']]

To print that as desired:

for e in udt:
    print(",".join(map(lambda f:f.split(":")[-1], e)))

prints

traider,domain.net,TECH-1366
traider1,domain.net,TECH-1367

and combined

d = [e.split(":")[-1] for e in txt.split()]
for i in range(0, len(d), 3):
    print( ",".join(d[i:i+3]) )

Upvotes: 0

Campbell McDiarmid
Campbell McDiarmid

Reputation: 494

This can be done by splitting the text into items, further splitting to obtain the useful text within each item, followed by some simple conditional formatting:

txt="""Username:traider

domain:domain.net


TECH-1366


Username:traider1

domain:domain.net


TECH-1367"""

out = ''
for item in txt.split():
    desired_value = item.split(':')[-1]
    out += desired_value
    if ':' in desired_value:
        out += ','           
    else:
        out += '\n'

Or using comprehension:

''.join('%s,' % item.split(':')[-1] if ':' in item else '%s\n' % item for item in txt.split())

Output:

traider,domain.net,TECH-1366
traider1,domain.net,TECH-1367

Upvotes: 0

RishiG
RishiG

Reputation: 2830

Try

people = re.findall(r'\bUsername:(\S+)\s+domain:(\S+).*(TECH-\d+)', data)

Upvotes: 1

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