On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:59:38 UTC+5:30, Daniel wrote: > What about skipping the re and try this: > > > > 'start=|ID=ter54rt543d|SID=ter54rt543d|end=|'.split('|')[1][3:] > > > > On 27.05.2014 14:09, 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 for the response. I got the answer finally. This is the regular expression to be used:\\|ID=[a-z]*[0-9]*[a-z]*[0-9]*[a-z]*\\| -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list