Question

I’ve been stuck here a day. So I thought to ask the experts.
I am reading contents from a file which has data in form

|something|
|something else|
|something_1
 something_2
 someting_3|
|something blah blah|

.. and so on..
so as you guys figured it out.. the delimiter is ‘|’
now.. I want the output in following form
|something|
|something else|
|something_1_something_2_someting_3|
|something blah blah|
basically everything between a delimiter in one string
Any clues how to go about it
Programming language is Python

Answer 1

import re
print re.findall(r"\|[^|]*\|", text)

If you haven’t seen this before, its a regular expression. Basically you describe a pattern in text that you are looking for. I recommend reading up on it if you don’t know them.