Question

I have a few known formats in an HTML page, I need to parse the content of the tags

<TR>
    <TD align=center>Reissue of:</TD>
    <TD align=center> **VALUES_TO_FIND** </TD>
    <TD> </TD> 
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD align=center> </TD>
</TR>

basically I thought I can concatenate the HTML with a regular expression that will match anything inside the spot I’m looking for.

I know that the text before and after VALUES_TO_FIND will always be the same. how can I find it using RE? (I’m dealing with several cases and the format can repeat in several places in the page.

Answer 1

This is what you are looking for:

import re

s="""
<TR>
    <TD align=center>Reissue of:</TD>
    <TD align=center> **VALUES_TO_FIND** </TD>
    <TD> </TD> 
</TR>
"""

p="""
<TR>
    <TD align=center>Reissue of:</TD>
    <TD align=center>(.*)</TD>
    <TD> </TD> 
</TR>
"""

m=re.search(p, s)
print m.group(1)