Get string between two strings

Question

<p>I'd like to find the string between the two paragraph tags.</p><br><p>And also this string</p>

How would I get the string between the first two paragraph tags? And then, how would I get the string between the 2nd paragraph tags?

Isdj · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-30T09:40:04.673

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Regular expressions

import re
matches = re.findall(r'<p>.+?</p>',string)

The following is your text run in console.

>>>import re
>>>string = """<p>I'd like to find the string between the two paragraph tags.</p><br><p>And also this string</p>"""
>>>re.findall('<p>.+?</p>',string)
["<p>I'd like to find the string between the two paragraph tags.</p>", '<p>And also this string</p>']

edited May 30 '17 at 09:40

answered May 30 '17 at 09:33

Isdj

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I've given you an upvote, but please correct these misspells in frirst fragment. Should be `` – gonczor May 30 '17 at 09:36
This might sound stupid but how come this doesn't work? `split = re.findall('
.+?
',content)` ...... `second = split[1]`......it gives me an `index out of range` error. How do I get the 2nd element? – Zorgan May 30 '17 at 10:01
@Zorgan, could you have changed the content? it works in my console: `>>> split = re.findall('
(.+?)
',string) >>> split[1] 'And also this string'` – Isdj May 30 '17 at 10:21
Yeah it was my content, i've fixed it now. Thanks. – Zorgan May 30 '17 at 11:01

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '19 at 00:35

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If you want the string between the p tags (excluding the p tags) then add parenthesis to .+? in the findall method

import re
    string = """<p>I'd like to find the string between the two paragraph tags.</p><br><p>And also this string</p>"""
    subStr = re.findall(r'<p>(.+?)</p>',string)
    print subStr

Result

["I'd like to find the string between the two paragraph tags.", 'And also this string']

answered Jan 12 '19 at 00:35

Rich Rajah

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Superb. Just what I needed. – JayJay123 Jul 05 '19 at 06:28

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 30 '17 at 10:13

In between <p> and </p>

In [7]: content = "<p>I'd like to find the string between the two paragraph tags.</p><br><p>And also this string</p>"

In [8]: re.findall(r'<p>(.+?)</p>', content)
Out[8]: 
["I'd like to find the string between the two paragraph tags.",
 'And also this string']

Get string between two strings

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