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Substring extraction
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Hello,

i have a list of strings like this:

<a href="https://filmovitica.com/neprijatelj-2011-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Neprijatelj (2011) domaći film gledaj online</a>

i need to extract following:

Neprijatelj (2011) domaći film gledaj online

I tried this:

print(re.search('">(.*)</a>', link))

But that results in:

<re.Match object; span=(91, 141), match='">Neprijatelj (2011) domaći film gledaj online</a>

It is a list of strings like this:

<a href="https://filmovitica.com/kraj-nedelje-1975-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Kraj nedelje (1975) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/cvetje-v-jeseni-1973-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Cvetje v jeseni (1973) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/sve-ce-to-narod-pozlatiti-1995-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Sve će to narod pozlatiti (1995) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/imam-nesto-vazno-da-vam-kazem-2005-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Imam nesto vazno da vam kazem (2005) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/kala-1958-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Kala (1958) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/oglas-1974-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Oglas (1974) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/mali-vojnici-1967-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Mali vojnici (1967) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/sinovci-2006-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Sinovci (2006) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/volca-nok-1955-vucja-noc-1955-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Volca nok (1955) – Vucja noc (1955) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/grad-1963-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Grad (1963) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/sta-se-dogodilo-sa-filipom-preradovicem-1977-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Sta se dogodilo sa Filipom Preradovicem (1977) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/hoja-lero-1952-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Hoja! Lero! (1952) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/roman-sa-kontrabasom-1972-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Roman sa kontrabasom (1972) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/zagreb-cappuccino-2014-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Zagreb Cappuccino (2014) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/prica-o-fabrici-1949-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Prica o fabrici (1949) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/put-ruzama-posut-2013-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Put Ruzama Posut (2013) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/pomorandzina-kora-2016-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Pomorandžina kora (2016) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/plava-ruza-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Plava ruža domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/ubica-na-odsustvu-1965-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Ubica na odsustvu (1965) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/hudodelci-1987-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Hudodelci (1987) domaći film gledaj online</a>
<a href="https://filmovitica.com/lazar-1984-domaci-film-gledaj-online/" rel="bookmark">Lazar (1984) domaći film gledaj online</a>

Name always starts with > and ends with < so i figured this might be the way, but a did not manage to get it working right.

Thanks in advance
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Messages In This Thread
Substring extraction - by nevendary - Apr-23-2019, 12:39 PM
RE: Substring extraction - by buran - Apr-23-2019, 01:35 PM
RE: Substring extraction - by nevendary - Apr-23-2019, 05:14 PM
RE: Substring extraction - by buran - Apr-23-2019, 06:23 PM
RE: Substring extraction - by nevendary - Apr-23-2019, 06:56 PM
RE: Substring extraction - by buran - Apr-23-2019, 07:30 PM
RE: Substring extraction - by nevendary - Apr-24-2019, 05:41 AM

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