Regular expression

Jussi Piitulainen jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi
Wed Jul 26 08:21:29 EDT 2017


Kunal Jamdade writes:

> There is a filename say:- 'first-324-True-rms-kjhg-Meterc639.html' .
>
> I want to extract the last 4 characters. I tried different regex. but
> i am not getting it right.
>
> Can anyone suggest me how should i proceed.?

os.path.splitext(name)  # most likely; also: os.path.split, os.path.join

name.rsplit('.', 1)     # might do

name[-4:]               # "last 4 characters"

name.endswith('.html')  # is this what you really want?

This is not a regex job.



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