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extract strings till ' \n ' character using lookbehnd in regex in python. And it can have alphanumeric characters, special characters and space also

text = ' My uncle is admitted in the hospital.\n He has been suffering from 10 months.\n The address of the hospital is \nApollo Health City Campus, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad - 500 033. ' now i want ...
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How can I strip a matching pattern by using a for-loop in python 2.7?

I am in the proces of making a dictionary of an OCR'd txt.file. At this point, I am trying to make a 'clean' slugline so that I - later - can easily identify specific parts of information I want to ...
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Python Regex to Find Special Characters and characters in between

I have a csv file that looks like the following Porta-a-Porta-d87134d1-e2bd-426b-b1f6-90d8dca68855;2842.020;2843.270;Unknown;; tecnici delle societ… Porta-a-Porta-d87134d1-e2bd-426b-b1f6-90d8dca68855;...
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RegEx fails to capture groups in loops [duplicate]

Regex search fails to get a string from match object when being used in a for loop. row_values = result_script_name.split('^') for row in row_values: table_name = re.search(r"(?<=')(.*)...
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Split string around spaces without colons in between

I have a problem where I have to split strings if there is more than one space between two strings. But the condition is, that series of spaces should not follow a colon(:) or preceeds it (like in ...
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Python regex optional capture group with positive lookahead

trying to find certain folder patterns. i can have a simple if statement but now I am wondering, Can this be done in one regex pattern? folders: name name_a01 name_a02 .. name_a20 name_dontuse_a10 ...
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Correct regex for finding string with two or three words in it

I have a text as given: (3) Reflects the adoption of SFAS No. 128, EARNINGS PER SHARE. <PAGE> ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF ...
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Exclude specific name in regex

I have multiple directories with names like app1.6.11, app1.7.12, app1.8.34, test1, test2. I want to match regex for all the directories which start with app and to exclude app1.8.34. I have tried: ...
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Regex Grouping and extraction of particular group based on regex look behind

I want to extract digits after 'ID' occurrence in the following text This is how I am able to get it. import re txt="Recharge done on 28-12-2017 04:57PM,MRP:Rs9.00,GST 18% payable by Company/...
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Regex distinguishing between Windows and Linux end of line characters

I'm trying to distinguish between Linux/Unix end of line character \n and the Windows end of line \r\n. I cannot seem to find a unique regex string that will distinguish between the two situations. My ...
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How do I dynamically capture in regex two dates from one line of text?

I have a text that will change weekly: text = "Weekly Comparison, Week 50 October 28 - November 3, 2016 October 30 - November 5, 2015" I'm looking for regex patterns for year 1, and year 2. (Both ...
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Need help in RegEx to grab anything after a mandatory value

I have a text in which I need to grab data and split it up. I need to find "Review frequency" within a large group of text, then once that is found, take everything after it and stop at the ')'. ...
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Match two groups but none of them should be empty

I want my regex to be able to match strings of random chars optionally followed by some digits - but if both matches are empty I want the match to fail. I am currently constructing the regex as in: ...
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How can I construct a regex that finds all groups between two expressions?

Suppose I have the text lorem ipsum: *(some amount of whitespace)* data1 *(some amount of whitespace)* data2 *(some amount of whitespace)* ...dataN *(some amount of whitespace)* *(empty line)* And I ...
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Need regex to take only the first two sentences even if other instances occur

I need help with a regex that finds the first two words at the start then takes only the first two sentences after, despite how many instances occur in the text. text = "The Smithsonian museum is ...
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