Regular Expressions

[pprod]

You could use catpuring groups

import re

text = """
23
24
10.00 to 11.00 - with a
yellow overcoat with brown buttons
and green rims.
25
26
12.00 to 13.00 - with short
27 shredded jeans with holes.
28
"""

result = re.compile(r'(?P<A>\d+[.]\d+ to \d+[.]\d+ - \D+)\d+(?P<B>\D+)')
matches = result.finditer(text)
for match in matches:
    print(match.group('A') + match.group('B'))

Output:
10.00 to 11.00 - with a
yellow overcoat with brown buttons
and green rims.


12.00 to 13.00 - with short
 shredded jeans with holes.

Thank you. That works really well and now I know something about groups, which led me to learn that we can use the 'either or' condition within REs using ' | '. I changed the input text slightly (added line 23) to test whether I could also extract the sentence starting with 'At 9.00 -' using the same RE. However, this doesn't do the trick and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

import re
 
text = """
23 At 9.00 - people playing banjos wearing fancy clothes
24
10.00 to 11.00 - with a
yellow overcoat with brown buttons
and green rims.
25
26
12.00 to 13.00 - with short
27 shredded jeans with holes.
28
"""
 
result = re.compile(r'((\w+ \d+[.]d+ - \D+)|(?P<A>\d+[.]\d+ to \d+[.]\d+ - \D+)\d+(?P<B>\D+))')
matches = result.finditer(text)
for match in matches:
    print(match.group('A') + match.group('B'))

Output:
10.00 to 11.00 - with a
yellow overcoat with brown buttons
and green rims.


12.00 to 13.00 - with short
 shredded jeans with holes.

Any suggestions? Thank you!