Question

somewhat confused.. but trying to do a search/repace using wildcards

if i have something like:

 <blah.... ssf  ff>
 <bl.... ssf     dfggg   ff>
 <b.... ssf      ghhjj fhf>

and i want to replace all of the above strings with say,

 <hh  >t

any thoughts/comments on how this can be accomplished?

thanks

update (thanks for the comments!)

i’m missing something…

my initial sample text are:

Soo Choi</span>LONGEDITBOX">Apryl Berney 
Soo Choi</span>LONGEDITBOX">Joel Franks 
Joel Franks</span>GEDITBOX">Alexander Yamato 

and i’m trying to get

Soo Choi foo Apryl Berney 
Soo Choi foo Joel Franks 
Joel Franks foo Alexander Yamato 

i’ve tried derivations of

name=re.sub("</s[^>]*\">"," foo ",name) 

but i’m missing something…

thoughts… thanks

Answer 1

See the rather usable Python Regular Expression manual here, or for a more hands-on approach a Regular Expression HOWTO section 5.2 Search and Replace.