Extract Values between two strings in a text file

Question

Lets say I have a Text file with the below content

fdsjhgjhg
fdshkjhk
 Start
     Good Morning
     Hello World
 End
dashjkhjk
dsfjkhk
Start
  hgjkkl
  dfghjjk
          


        

Answer 1

If you don't expect to get nested structures, you could do this:

# match everything between "Start" and "End"
occurences = re.findall(r"Start(.*?)End", text, re.DOTALL)
# discard text before duplicated occurences of "Start"
occurences = [oc.rsplit("Start", 1)[-1] for oc in occurences]
# optionally trim whitespaces
occurences = [oc.strip("\n") for oc in occurences]

Which prints

>>> for oc in occurences: print(oc)
     Good Morning
     Hello World
   Good Evening
   Good

You can add the \n as part of Start and End if you want