Newbie: Check first two non-whitespace characters

[Mark Lawrence]

On 31/12/2015 18:54, Karim wrote:
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> On 31/12/2015 19:18, otaksoftspamtrap at gmail.com wrote:
>> I need to check a string over which I have no control for the first 2
>> non-white space characters (which should be '[{').
>>
>> The string would ideally be: '[{...' but could also be something like
>> '  [  {  ....'.
>>
>> Best to use re and how? Something else?
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> Use pyparsing it is straight forward:
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>  >>> from pyparsing import Suppress, restOfLine
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>  >>> mystring = Suppress('[') + Suppress('{') + restOfLine
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>  >>> result = mystring.parse(' [ { .... I am learning pyparsing' )
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>  >>> print result.asList()
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> ['.... I am learning pyparsing']
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> You'll get your string inside the list.
>
> Hope this help see pyparsing doc for in depth study.
>
> Karim

Congratulations for writing up one of the most overengineered pile of 
cobblers I've ever seen.

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Mark Lawrence