Re.search misses string end

[CaptainCsaba]

Hi!

I have a strange problem. I have a PDF that I convert into a string using PDFminer. I change every "\n" to nothing (beause sometimes they appear at codebreaking places) I then search for a substring and then modify it a bit to match what I need. It wokrs perfectly for most cases but for some reason it does not in every situation and I don't know why. This is the code:

text1line = str(text).replace("\n", "")
designation1 = str(re.search('in the name of(.*)Voting', text1line))
designation0 = re.sub('<re.*name of ', '', designation1)
designation = str(designation0).split("Limited")[1]

This is a part of "text1line": "registered in the name of XYZ Limited OK04.Voting rights are"
What I would need is is just "OK04". This is what designation1 is in this example:

<re.Match object; span=(551, 608), match='in the name of State Street Nominees Limited OK0>

For some reason in some cases it misses the last character and I have absolutely no idea why (and also the ".Vot" part but that one is not needed.) The pdfs can vary a bit in format and I have not yet figured out what formats are wrong.

What is the problem?

[heiner55]

#!/usr/bin/python3
import re

text1line    = "registered in the name of XYZ Limited OK04.Voting rights are"
designation0 = re.search(r'Limited.(.*).Voting', text1line)
print(designation0.group(1))

[ichabod801]

What heiner55 is showing you is that the string representation of an re Match object does not contain the full text that was found. Keeping in mind that re searches can be very complex, and can have multiple groups matching different parts of the string. So a simple string is not necessarily going to be able to represent what was matched.

[heiner55]

Thanks for your explanation.