given text between two 'pre' tags as shown in the example code
I want to search for specified text... ABCD in the example
while ignoring any preceeding text on the line... "XYZ%7 " in the example
then put the six digits afterwards into a string... "141800" in the example
and also... how to put the entire line of text in a string... XYZ57 ABCD 141800" so I can manage it with the Python string methods.
thanks for any help.
I want to search for specified text... ABCD in the example
while ignoring any preceeding text on the line... "XYZ%7 " in the example
then put the six digits afterwards into a string... "141800" in the example
and also... how to put the entire line of text in a string... XYZ57 ABCD 141800" so I can manage it with the Python string methods.
thanks for any help.
html = '''\
<html>
<body>
<pre>
Text in a pre element
is displayed in a fixed-width
XYZ57 ABCD 141800
font, and it preserves
both spaces and
line breaks
</pre>
</body>
</html>'''
import bs4 as bs
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(html,'lxml')
y = soup.find('pre')
print (y)
print ("\ndebug break 1\n")
# goal = find ABCD ###### and ignore the
# first 5 characters and space at line begining
# as they may not always be the same
y=str(y)
print (type(y))
if "ABCD" in y:
print ('found it')
# OK ABCD is in the string now how do I capture the
# six digits after it? 141800 in this example