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HadiH2o
HadiH2o

Reputation: 361

find the specific part of string between special characters

i am trying to find specific part of the string using regex or something like that. for example:

string = "hi i am *hadi* and i have &18& year old"
name = regex.find("query")
age = regex.find("query")
print(name,age)

result:

hadi 18

i need the 'hadi' and '18'

Attention: The string is different each time. I need the sentence or words betwee ** and &&

Upvotes: 1

Views: 55

Answers (2)

HadiH2o
HadiH2o

Reputation: 361

this is how i solved my question:

import re

string = "hello. my name is *hadi* and i am ^18^ years old."

name = re.findall(r"\*(.+)\*", string)
age = re.findall(r"\^(.+)\^", string)

print(name[0], age[0])

Upvotes: 0

MDR
MDR

Reputation: 2670

Try:

import re

string = "hi i am *hadi* and i have &18& year old"

pattern = r'(?:\*|&)(\w+)(?:\*|&)'

print(re.findall(pattern, string))

Outputs:

['hadi', '18']

You could assign re.findall(pattern, string) to a variable and have a Python list and access the values etc.

Regex demo:

https://regex101.com/r/vIg7lU/1

The \w+ in the regex can be changed to .*? if there is more than numbers and letters. Example: (?:\*|&)(.*?)(?:\*|&) and demo: https://regex101.com/r/RIqLuI/1

Upvotes: 1

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