Question

I have a long string with key values in this format:

"info":"infotext","day":"today","12":"here","info":"infotext2","info":"infotext3"

I want to get the value (=infotexts) of all “info” keys. How can this be done?

Answer 1

As long as your infotext does not contain (escaped) quotes, you could try something like this:

>>> m = re.findall(r'"info":"([^"]+)', str)
>>> m
['infotext', 'infotext2', 'infotext3']

We simply match "info":" and then as many non-" characters as possible (which are captured and thus returned).