Extracting text from a string

Claudio Grondi claudio.grondi at freenet.de
Thu Sep 7 14:37:59 EDT 2006


Tempo wrote:
> Hello. I am having a little trouble extracting text from a string. The
> string that I am dealing with is pasted below, and I want to extract
> the prices that are contained in the string below. Thanks in advanced
> for any and all help. Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> <span class="sale">
> 					$14.99
> 				</span>, <span class="sale">
> 					$27.99
> 				</span>, <span class="sale">
> 					$66.99
> 				</span>, <span class="sale">
> 					$129.99
> 				</span>, <span class="sale">
> 					$254.99
> 			</span>
> 
What have you tried?

Taking a look into regular expressions in the Python tutorial (4.2 re -- 
Regular expression operations) should give you all you need.

Claudio Grondi



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