Question

I am trying to get a block of lines between 2 known lines using pyparsing. For example:

ABC
....
DEF

My python code:

end = Literal("\n").suppress()
firstLine = Literal("ABC") + SkipTo(end)
secondLine = Literal("DEF") + SkipTo(end)
line = SkipTo(end)
test = firstLine + OneOrMore(line) + secondLine

test.searchString(myText)

–> but it doesn’t work. Python just hangs.
Can anybody show me how to do it?

Thanks,

Answer 1

I finally found answer to my question.

end = Literal("\n").suppress()
firstLine = Literal("ABC") + SkipTo(end)
secondLine = Literal("DEF") + SkipTo(end)
line = ~secondLine + SkipTo(end)
test = firstLine + OneOrMore(line) + secondLine

test.searchString(myText)

That works for me.