How to get a string between two substrings?

Question

I have the following text from a text file.

#AAA#WantedData#bbb#ccc#ddd#eee#SoOn#

I want to get only the WantedData from the above string. Always I want to get the data between second and third #sign.

What is the efficient way to achieve this in python?

ncica · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-05 10:04:25Z

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Python String split() Method

The split() method splits a string into a list.

You can specify the separator, default separator is any whitespace.

data.split("#") # ['', 'AAA', 'WantedData', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'ddd', 'eee', 'SoOn', '']

you can do it just like this(if you always want data between second and third #sign.):

data = "#AAA#WantedData#bbb#ccc#ddd#eee#SoOn#"
print (data.split("#")[2])

output:

WantedData

edited Jul 5, 2019 at 10:04

answered Jul 5, 2019 at 10:02

ncica

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user8026974 Over a year ago

Thanks you! It looks easier than expected.

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