String parsing

[Tim Leslie]

On 8 May 2007 18:09:52 -0700, HMS Surprise <john at datavoiceint.com> wrote:
>
> The string below is a piece of a longer string of about 20000
> characters returned from a web page. I need to isolate the number at
> the end of the line containing 'LastUpdated'. I can find
> 'LastUpdated'  with .find but not sure about how to isolate the
> number. 'LastUpdated' is guaranteed to occur only once. Would
> appreciate it if one of you string parsing whizzes would take a stab
> at it.
>

Does this help?

In [7]: s = '<input type="hidden" name="LastUpdated"
value="1178658863"/>'

In [8]: int(s.split("=")[-1].split('"')[1])
Out[8]: 1178658863

There's probably a hundred different ways of doing this, but this is
the first that came to mind.

Cheers,

Tim

> Thanks,
>
> jh
>
>
>
> <input type="hidden" name="RFP"                         value="-1"/>
> <!--<input type="hidden" name="EnteredBy"               value="johnxxxx"/>-->
> <input type="hidden" name="EnteredBy"           value="john"/>
> <input type="hidden" name="ServiceIndex"        value="1"/>
> <input type="hidden" name="LastUpdated"         value="1178658863"/>
> <input type="hidden" name="NextPage"            value="../active/active.php"/>
> <input type="hidden" name="ExistingStatus"      value="10" ?>
> <table width="98%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
> align="center"
>
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