On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:39:19 UTC+5:30, Vlastimil Brom wrote: > 2014-05-27 12:59 GMT+02:00 Aman Kashyap <amankashyap1...@gmail.com>: > > > I would like to create a regular expression in which i can match the "|" > > special character too. > > > > > > e.g. > > > > > > start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=| > > > > > > I want to only |ID=ter54rt543d| from the above string but i am unable to > > write the pattern match containing "|" pipe too. > > > > > > By default python treat "|" as an OR operator. > > > > > > But in my case I want to use to as a part of search string. > > > -- > > > > Hi, > > you can just escpape the pipe with backlash like any other metacharacter: > > > > r"start=\|ID=ter54rt543d" > > > > be sure to use the raw string notation r"...", or you can double all > > backslashes in the string. > > > > hth, > > vbr
Thanks vbr for the quick response. I have string = |SOH=|ID=re65dgt5dd|DS=fjkjf|SDID=fhkhkf|ID=fkjfkf|EOM=| and want to replace 2 sub-strings |ID=re65dgt5dd| with |ID=MAN| |ID=fkjfkf| with |MAN| I am using regular expression ID=[a-z]*[0-9]*[a-z]*[0-9]*[a-z]*|$ the output is |SOH=|ID=MAN|DS=fjkjf|SDID=MAN|ID=MAN|EOM=|ID=MAN expected value is = |SOH=|ID=MAN|DS=fjkjf|SDID=fhkhkf|ID=MAN|EOM=| could you please help me in this regard? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
