Question

I’m working on a script for work to extract data from an old template engine schema:

[%price%] { $54.99 } [%/price%]  [%model%] { WRT54G } [%/model%]  [%brand%]{ LINKSYS } [%/brand%] 

everything within the [% %] is the key, and everything in the { } is the value. Using Python and regex, I was able to get this far: (?<=[%)(?P\w*?)(?=\%])

which returns [‘price’, ‘model’, ‘brand’]

I’m just having a problem getting it match the bracket data as a value

Answer 1

just for grins:

import re RE_kv = re.compile('\[%(.*)%\].*?\n?\s*{\s*(.*)') matches = re.findall(RE_kv, test, re.M) for k, v in matches:     print k, v 

output:

price $54.99 model WRT54G brand LINKSYS 

Note I did just enough regex to get the matches to show up, it’s not even bounded at the end for the close brace. Use at your own risk.