Question

I have a simple regex question that’s driving me crazy.
I have a variable x = "field1: XXXX field2: YYYY".
I want to retrieve YYYY (note that this is an example value).
My approach was as follows:

values = re.match('field2:\s(.*)', x)
print values.groups()

It’s not matching anything. Can I get some help with this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Your regex is good

field2:\s(.*)

Try this code

match = re.search(r"field2:\s(.*)", subject)
if match:
    result = match.group(1)
else:
    result = ""