Retreive the first bracket content using regex in python

Question

I have a string as

str='[dbo].[AGENTS]'

I want to retreive only first bracket value using regular expression how can I do that

output : dbo

no need to use regex. just use this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4894069/regular-expression-to-return-text-between-parenthesis replace the parentheses with brackets — Muhammad Nizami, Dec 16 '20 at 10:30
If you decide to do regex, than, possibly [`[^][]+`](https://regex101.com/r/dU42kT/2) — JvdV, Dec 16 '20 at 10:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '20 at 10:30

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You could do that using groups:

test_string = '[dbo].[AGENTS]'
pattern = "\[(\w+)\].\[(\w+)\]"
match = re.match(pattern, test_string)
print(match.group(1))

Output

dbo

answered Dec 16 '20 at 10:30

andy meissner