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print a word after specific word search
#1
hello all ...
i have this string :

Quote:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metafile version="3.6" client="site">
<name>English (en-GB)</name>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<creationDate>July 2016</creationDate>
<author>Joomla! Project</author>
<authorEmail>[email protected]</authorEmail>
<authorUrl>www.joomla.org</authorUrl>
<copyright>Copyright © 2005 - 2016 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.</copyright>
<license>GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt</license>
<description>en-GB site language</description>
<metadata>
<name>English (en-GB)</name>
<tag>en-GB</tag>
<rtl>0</rtl>
<locale>en_GB.utf8, en_GB.UTF-8, en_GB, eng_GB, en, english, english-uk, uk, gbr, britain, england, great britain, uk, united kingdom, united-kingdom</locale>
<firstDay>0</firstDay>
<weekEnd>0,6</weekEnd>
</metadata>
<params />
</metafile>
i need to search for <version> then print just ( 3.6.0 ) , how i can do that ?
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#2
what have you tried?
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#3
(Oct-22-2019, 06:54 AM)buran Wrote: what have you tried?
match = re.compile(r'"<version>"\:(".*?)["\[]')
a = match.findall(q)
print(a)
i got
Output:
[]
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#4
https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/xml....ttree.html

or use some external module as lxml or BeautifulSoup
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(Oct-22-2019, 06:53 AM)evilcode1 Wrote: i have this string :

Quote:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metafile version="3.6" client="site">
<name>English (en-GB)</name>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<creationDate>July 2016</creationDate>
<author>Joomla! Project</author>
[ ... ]
i need to search for <version> then print just ( 3.6.0 ) , how i can do that ?

Hi!

Maybe you could use something like:

import re

string1 = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metafile version="3.6" client="site">
<name>English (en-GB)</name>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<creationDate>July 2016</creationDate>
<author>Joomla! Project</author>
[ ... ]'''
requirement1 = re.search('<version>(.*)</version>', string1)
print(requirement1.group(1))
that produces the following output:
Output:
3.6.0
All the best,
newbieAuggie2019

"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
Steve Jobs
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(Oct-22-2019, 07:30 AM)newbieAuggie2019 Wrote:
(Oct-22-2019, 06:53 AM)evilcode1 Wrote: i have this string :

i need to search for <version> then print just ( 3.6.0 ) , how i can do that ?

Hi!

Maybe you could use something like:

import re

string1 = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metafile version="3.6" client="site">
<name>English (en-GB)</name>
<version>3.6.0</version>
<creationDate>July 2016</creationDate>
<author>Joomla! Project</author>
[ ... ]'''
requirement1 = re.search('<version>(.*)</version>', string1)
print(requirement1.group(1))
that produces the following output:
Output:
3.6.0
All the best,
thank u very much <3 works and this is better than starting coding new code with xml.etree.ElementTree

(Oct-22-2019, 07:05 AM)buran Wrote: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/xml....ttree.html

or use some external module as lxml or BeautifulSoup

thank u for quick response , but i will prefer regex and @newbieAuggie2019 give me a solution
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#7
(Oct-22-2019, 07:40 AM)evilcode1 Wrote: thank u very much <3 works

You're welcome! Smile
newbieAuggie2019

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Steve Jobs
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#8
why not parse html/xml with regex is discussed so many times... use proper tools for the task or it will bite you when you don't expect
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(Oct-22-2019, 07:40 AM)evilcode1 Wrote:
(Oct-22-2019, 07:05 AM)buran Wrote: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/xml....ttree.html

or use some external module as lxml or BeautifulSoup

thank u for quick response , but i will prefer regex

(Oct-22-2019, 07:50 AM)buran Wrote: why not parse html/xml with regex is discussed so many times... use proper tools for the task or it will bite you when you don't expect

Hi again!

Although I always try to address a problem from the point of view and knowledge of a newbie like myself, if anyone from this site advises not to use what I have suggested in good faith, I would take their advice into consideration, as their knowledge is much much deeper than mine.

All the best,
newbieAuggie2019

"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
Steve Jobs
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