Include and neglect the text between 2 special characters

Question

I have a string something similar to this.

str1=r'<st-button mode="positive" width="small" can-click="{loadConference}" id="meetingPasswordButton">{{i18n "ok"}}</st-button>'

I want to include everything between < and > and reject everything between </ and >.

I tried this to include and reject the text between those special characters using following code. But I am unable to get the output. Help me cracking this situation.

code:

import re
pat = r'(?<=\<).+?(?=\>)' or r'(?<!\</).+?(?!\>)'   

s = r'<st-button mode="positive" width="small" can-click="{loadConference}" id="meetingPasswordButton">{{i18n "ok"}}</st-button>'


print (re.findall(pat, s))

Read [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/2276527) – Alok Mar 21 '16 at 11:11 — Alok, Mar 21 '16 at 11:11

niemmi · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-21T11:25:12.320

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Following regular expression will return the data between < and >:

print(re.findall('<((?!/).*?)>', s))

Output:

['st-button mode="positive" width="small" can-click="{loadConference}"id="meetingPasswordButton"']

edited Mar 21 '16 at 11:25

answered Mar 21 '16 at 11:17

niemmi

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '16 at 11:19

>>> import re
>>> s = r'<st-button mode="positive" width="small" can-click="{loadConference}" id="meetingPasswordButton">{{i18n "ok"}}</st-button>'
>>> print re.findall(r'<([^\/].*?)>', s)
['st-button mode="positive" width="small" can-click="{loadConference}" id="meetingPasswordButton"']

Include and neglect the text between 2 special characters

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