<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?
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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>']
4 Comments
gonczor
I've given you an upvote, but please correct these misspells in frirst fragment. Should be
</p>
Zorgan
This might sound stupid but how come this doesn't work?
split = re.findall('<p>.+?</p>',content) ...... second = split[1]......it gives me an index out of range error. How do I get the 2nd element?
Isdj
@Zorgan, could you have changed the content? it works in my console:
>>> split = re.findall('<p>(.+?)</p>',string) >>> split[1] 'And also this string'Zorgan
Yeah it was my content, i've fixed it now. Thanks.
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']
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JayJay123
Superb. Just what I needed.
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']
