On Apr 12, 2:30 pm, Petyr David <phyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm familiar with simple string substitutions in shell and perl: > > string= "I have 30 days to find it" > > echo $string | sed "s/\(.*\)\(30\)\(.*\)/\2/ > > which will (if I did it right) leave 30 > > and perl likewise. > > I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this in Python and it's not > for lack of trying to find an example. It can't be this hard is it?
No, it isn't; there are examples in the docs (http://docs.python.org/ library/re.html#re.sub) and the HOWTO (http://docs.python.org/dev/ howto/regex.html#search-and-replace) ... how did you manage to avoid finding them? >>> import re >>> strg = "yadda 30 blah" >>> re.sub(r"(.*)(30)(.*)", r"\2", strg) '30' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
