Pattern Search Regular Expression

Sat Jun 15 06:05:01 EDT 2013

On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:42:55 -0700, subhabangalore wrote:

> Dear Group,
> 
> I am trying to search the following pattern in Python.
> 
> I have following strings:
> 
>  (i)"In the ocean"
>  (ii)"On the ocean"
>  (iii) "By the ocean"
>  (iv) "In this group"
>  (v) "In this group"
>  (vi) "By the new group"
>        .....
> 
> I want to extract from the first word to the last word, where first word
> and last word are varying.
> 
> I am looking to extract out:
>   (i) the
>   (ii) the
>   (iii) the
>   (iv) this
>   (v) this
>   (vi) the new
>       .....
> 
> The problem may be handled by converting the string to list and then
> index of list.

No need for a regular expression.

py> sentence = "By the new group"
py> words = sentence.split()
py> words[1:-1]
['the', 'new']

Does that help?

-- 
Steven