Pattern Search Regular Expression

[subhabangalore at gmail.com]

On Saturday, June 15, 2013 3:12:55 PM UTC+5:30, subhaba... at gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Group,
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> I am trying to search the following pattern in Python.
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> I have following strings:
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>  (i)"In the ocean"
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>  (ii)"On the ocean"
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>  (iii) "By the ocean"
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>  (iv) "In this group"
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>  (v) "In this group"
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>  (vi) "By the new group"
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>        .....
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> I want to extract from the first word to the last word, 
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> where first word and last word are varying.
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> I am looking to extract out:
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>   (i) the
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>   (ii) the 
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>   (iii) the
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>   (iv) this
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>   (v) this
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>   (vi) the new
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>       .....
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> The problem may be handled by converting the string to list and then 
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> index of list. 
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> But I am thinking if I can use regular expression in Python.
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> If any one of the esteemed members can help.
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> Thanking you in Advance,
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> Regards,
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> Subhabrata

Dear Group,

Thank you for the answer. But I want to learn bit of interesting regular expression forms where may I? No Mark, thank you for your links but they were not sufficient. I am looking for more intriguing exercises, esp use of or in the pattern search. 

Regards,
Subhabrata.