On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Sriram Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering if I can use re.search to extract from a particular > location in a string. > Example: > string1='/Users/sriram/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file' > re.search ('folder3,string1) > > <Extract /folder3/folder4/folder5/file> > > Thanks, > > Sriram
Something like below? Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:16) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> s = '/Users/sriram/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file' >>> y = re.search('folder3.*', s) >>> y.group() 'folder3/folder4/folder5/file' >>> -- Stand Fast, tjg. [Timothy Grant] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list