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Reputation: 1961

Extract first paragraph using regex

I'm trying to extract first paragraph. But I have found any luck. Can any one help me? here is text. http://dpaste.com/638776/. My text is dynamic. thanks

UPDATE: I'm reading XML file using eTree module. In XML there is tag called <text></text>. The data between <text></text> is here. I just want print following data from text tags. Is it possible? thanks

  '''Zamindar''' ({{te|జమీందార్}}) is a 1965 [[Telugu language|Telugu]] "Thriller" film 
  directed by [[V. Madhusudhan Rao]] and produced by [[Tammareddy Krishna Murthy]] 
  of Ravindra Art Pictures.This is variety role for [[Akkineni Nageswara Rao]]
  who is more popular with soft Romantic roles.He plays the role of a tough CID Officer     very well.The Movie has some Good songs.This movie has a considerable resemblance with the 1963 [[Cary Grant]] English Movie ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]''.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1715

Answers (2)

Ludovic Kuty
Ludovic Kuty

Reputation: 4954

If you build a regex where the dot matches the newline, you have (tested in ruby but I guess that it will work in python as is). It is quite the same as the answer by Niall Byrne:

}}\n(.*?)\n\n

Please see the effect at rubular.

Upvotes: 1

Niall Byrne
Niall Byrne

Reputation: 2460

Revised based on new info ...

If you able to produce the text between the tags, you just need to find a pattern for the first paragraph that will fit all cases, so based on this example:

 #data - stuff between text tags
 firstparagraph = re.search("}}(.*?)\r*\n\r*\n",data,re.DOTALL)
 print firstparagraph.group(1)

Upvotes: 0

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