Question

I am trying to write a regex to match a library in a file and the path containingg the file. All the libraries in the file will be in the format.

text = "mylib|C://desktop//baseicmylib.lib
        randlib|C://desktop//randlib.lib"

so if I want to find mylib

I wrote

str = "mylib"
pattern = r'%s\\|.*lib'%str
mypath = re.findall(pattern,text)

Can some one help me where I am making a mistake.

Answer 1

It’s maybe no regex needed?

text = '''mylib|C://desktop//baseicmylib.lib
    randlib|C://desktop//randlib.lib'''

libs = dict(line.split('|', 1) for line in
    (s.strip() for s in text.split('\n')))

result:

{'randlib': 'C://desktop//randlib.lib',
   'mylib': 'C://desktop//baseicmylib.lib'}