Regular Expressions 101

Community Patterns

Look Forward

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Regular Expression
Python

r"
# Keys are pretty much "any text before the '=' symbol" (?P<key>[^=]+) # Match the '=' symbol = (?P<value> # Lazy match .*? # Look-ahead (don't move the "regex cursor", just "peek forward") (?= # Match a '_' that has no other '_' between it and the '=' character, or... _[^_=\n]+= | # ... or the end of the line $ ) ) # Actually "consume" the '_' character if it exists (or just match the end-of-line) (?:_|$)
"
gmx

Description

Between two strings.

Submitted by Online Cop - 8 years ago