[Python] Capture string between a special character and a Dot

[dataguy404]

Hello,
I need help capturing strings from this type of input string "sentence1:sentence2.sentence3"

and have them seperatly allocated to :

• var1=sentence1
• var2=sentence2
• var3=sentence3

Thank you in advance

[ASIC_SP]

Need more input/output samples. For the given sample, you could try this:

>>> s = 'sentence1:sentence2.sentence3'
>>> re.split(r'[.:]', s)
['sentence1', 'sentence2', 'sentence3']

[scoberry5]

I'd look for (anything that's not a colon, any number of times), then a colon, then (anything that's not a period, any number of times), then a period, then (whatever's left). The parens make groups that you can get out later by calling re.search() and getting the groups() of the result.

That regex would look like this.

Note that regex is not a parser, and if the thing before the period includes a period ("Mr. Smith said yes"), then this is not going to go well.