Extracting patterns after matching a regex

[Mart.]

On Sep 8, 2:16 pm, "Andreas Tawn" <andreas.t... at ubisoft.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I need to extract a string after a matching a regular expression. For
> > example I have the string...
>
> > s = "FTPHOST: e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov"
>
> > and once I match "FTPHOST" I would like to extract
> > "e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov". I am not sure as to the best approach to the
> > problem, I had been trying to match the string using something like
> > this:
>
> > m = re.findall(r"FTPHOST", s)
>
> > But I couldn't then work out how to return the "e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov"
> > part. Perhaps I need to find the string and then split it? I had some
> > help with a similar problem, but now I don't seem to be able to
> > transfer that to this problem!
>
> > Thanks in advance for the help,
>
> > Martin
>
> No need for regex.
>
> s = "FTPHOST: e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov"
> If "FTPHOST" in s:
>     return s[9:]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Drea

Sorry perhaps I didn't make it clear enough, so apologies. I only
presented the example  s = "FTPHOST: e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov" as I
thought this easily encompassed the problem. The solution presented
works fine for this i.e. re.search(r'FTPHOST: (.*)',s).group(1). But
when I used this on the actual file I am trying to parse I realised it
is slightly more complicated as this also pulls out other information,
for example it prints

e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov\r\n', 'FTPDIR: /PullDir/0301872638CySfQB\r\n',
'Ftp Pull Download Links: \r\n', 'ftp://e4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov/PullDir/
0301872638CySfQB\r\n', 'Down load ZIP file of packaged order:\r\n',

etc. So I need to find a way to stop it before the \r

slicing the string wouldn't work in this scenario as I can envisage a
situation where the string lenght increases and I would prefer not to
keep having to change the string.

Many thanks