Python2.7/ NLTK remove part of string before certain character

Question

I am reading a csv file, containing 371 lines of text.

0þ"Text including numbers and quotes"þ4.6

I am trying to extract the texting between the þ" and "þ. How can I do this?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3368969/find-string-between-two-substrings — Arijit Mukherjee, Feb 05 '16 at 18:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '16 at 18:37

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awk -F'þ"|"þ' '{print $2}' data.csv

The above command prints the 2nd column of each row in the file data.csv,
where columns are separated by either a þ" OR a "þ.

answered Feb 05 '16 at 18:37

TheCodeArtist

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 05 '16 at 19:04

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Thanks all!

Both your responses helped me find the solution:

test = sent[(sent.index('þ"')):(sent.index('"þ'))]

answered Feb 05 '16 at 19:04

boneless

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