Question

Given the following string;

....00.3276021,,,constString1=31;garbage=00:00:00.0090000;constString2=16;garbage2=00.00...

How can I extract the values for constString1 and constString2 so that I can assign them to a variable. For example:

string1_cummulativeTotal += [the magic returning the int]
string2_cummulativeTotal += [the magic returning the int]

Thanks!

Answer 1

In [1]: import re

In [2]: s = '....00.3276021,,,constString1=31;garbage=00:00:00.0090000;constString2=16;garbage2=00.00...'

In [3]: re.search('constString1=(\d+);', s).group(1)
Out[3]: '31'

In [4]: re.search('constString2=(\d+);', s).group(1)
Out[4]: '16'

These are still strings, don’t forget to convert them to integers.