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I wrote a regex inside of a python script to analyse xml files but sadly its not working
I wrote a script to gather information out of an XML file. Inside, there are ENTITY's defined and I need a RegEx to get the value out of it.
<!ENTITY ABC "123">
<!ENTITY ...
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Parsing text files with "magic" values
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I have some large text files used in an automation script for audio tuning. Each line in the text file looks roughly like:
A[BANANA] + B[PINEAPPLE] - C[CHERRY] [[BANANA]] BANANA # BANANA
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How to use regex in python? [duplicate]
I must be missing something simple - whatever I do, I can't get my regex to match any strings:
[~] $ python2.7
Python 2.7.12 (default, Aug 13 2016, 19:37:25)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (...
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Encode Python list in order to use re module
I have a text file in spanish, so it has thousands of words, some of them with accents. I'm using re module in order to extract some words, but when I got a list, some words are incomplete.
This is ...
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Use capture group in re.sub
I have the following code:
>>> s = 'https://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/store/tv/%E7%BE%8E%E7%94%B7-%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B1%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3-%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E8%AA%95%E7%94%9F-%E3%83%8E%...
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What is the best way to use OR in python regex
I'm doing an homework on regex and having some difficulties with OR.
Given the following strings:
avc7fsrd5vcc12vfscsrwt1qw7eetrs&fsrsy
should return t1 s
fdjhads jhf&5672t3zcxvb,...
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Python regex finding sub-string
I'm New to python and regex. Here I'm trying to recover the text between two limits. The starting could be mov/add/rd/sub/and/etc.. and end limit is end of the line.
/********** sample input text ...
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How to remove strings from in between brackets with regex...python [closed]
I need to pull out a single string containing the words from extracted fields:
[[cat]][[dog]][[mouse]][[apple]][[banana]][[pear]][[plum]][[pool]]
So from this I need: cat dog mouse apple banana pear ...
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How to split bracketed list in python with regex'?
I am trying to use the re module in python to split a string that represents a list. The list is identified by brackets.
Input:
"[1]first[2]second[3]third" ... etc
Desired output:
['first', '...
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Delete rest of string after n-th occurence
I have the following string:
a = "this.is.a.string"
I wish to delete everything after the 3rd '.' symbol so that it returns
trim(a)
>>> "this.is.a"
while a string without the 3rd '.' should ...
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Find string between 2 chars regex python
I'm trying to find URLs in html. This is the example I'm trying to match:
href="http://(.+)"(?:.+)
<a href="http://www.etf.rs/" target="_top">
This matches:
www.etf.rs/" target=
And it should:...
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Using a RegEx to find groups of numbers, replace with only the last member of the group
I have a csv file that's formatted like this (only relevant row shown):
Global equity - 45%/45.1%
Private Investments - 25%/21%
Hedge Funds - 17.5%/18.1%
Bonds & cash - 12.5%/15.3%
I wrote a ...
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How to recognize string patterns?
I want to group strings in python, but I don't really know how to approach the problem.
Lets say I have a list of file names:
test-1.jpg
test-2.jpg
test-3.jpg
supertest-828.jpg
supertest-8429.jpg
5-...
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How to use "While()" in python [closed]
Hi all my code below allows me to extract some specific informations from the data and i would like that someone helps me to write this more properly by using a while so i can do this for many lines ...
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