Need help to extract particular string

[lokesh]

Hi,

I want to extract particular string in a file.suppose file contains the following string.

INFO 2019-02-19 20:59:56,178 - Process Start time : 2019-02-19 20:55:09.778793
INFO 2019-02-19 20:59:56,178 - Process End time : 2019-02-19 20:59:56.178893

Output should be like as below.

Output:
Process Start time        : 2019-02-19 20:55:09.778793
   Process End time          : 2019-02-19 20:59:56.178893

I tried to achieve the output using below but not succeeded.

import re
    re.match("(.*)Process Start time(.*)", line):
        c= line.split("-")[3]
        print(c)

Could you please help me in advance

[ichabod801]

I think you need an if before the second line. But that won't get the end time. You probably just want to check for 'Process'. In fact, a regular expression is overkill for this. You can just use if 'Process' in line:.

[lokesh]

Hi,

It is not working which i tried as below

import re
re.match("(.*)Process Start time(.*)", line):
c= line.split("-")[3]
print©

output:
======
Process Start time : 2019


In date format hyphen(-) is exists so that is the reason it is extracting only year.

Thanks in advance

[snippsat]

Use Code tag as you have gotten info about.

If doing it with regex it could be like this.

import re

data = '''\
INFO 2019-02-19 20:59:56,178 - Process Start time : 2019-02-19 20:55:09.778793
INFO 2019-02-19 20:59:56,178 - Process End time : 2019-02-19 20:59:56.178893'''

>>> r = re.findall(r"P.*", data)
>>> r
['Process Start time : 2019-02-19 20:55:09.778793',
 'Process End time : 2019-02-19 20:59:56.178893']

>>> print('\n'.join(r))
Process Start time : 2019-02-19 20:55:09.778793
Process End time : 2019-02-19 20:59:56.178893

# Without regex
>>> for line in data.split('\n'):
...     line.split(' - ')[::-2]
    
['Process Start time : 2019-02-19 20:55:09.778793']
['Process End time : 2019-02-19 20:59:56.178893']