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I’m searching a file line by line for the occurrence of ##random_string##. It works except for the case of multiple #…
pattern='##(.*?)##'
prog=re.compile(pattern)
string='lala ###hey## there'
result=prog.search(string)
print re.sub(result.group(1), 'FOUND', string)
Desired Output:
"lala #FOUND there"
Instead I get the following because its grabbing the whole ###hey##:
"lala FOUND there"
So how would I ignore any number of # at the beginning or end, and only capture “##string##”.
To match at least two hashes at either end: