Question

i have strings with Following pattern in python :

2011-03-01 14:10:43 C:\Scan\raisoax.exe detected    Trojan.Win32.VBKrypt.agqw

how get substrings: C:\Scan\raisoax.exe and Trojan.Win32.VBKrypt.agqw

between string is tab

Answer 1

A solution using regexes:

s = "2011-03-01 14:10:43 C:\Scan\raisoax.exe detected    Trojan.Win32.VBKrypt.agqw"
reg = re.match(r"\S*\s\S*\s(.*)[^\ ] detected\s+(.*)",s)
file,name = reg.groups()

This will catch files with spaces in them as well. It will fail if you have files with ” detected ” in them. (you can add a forward assertion to fix that as well.