Python Regular Expression Matching: ## ##

Question

I\'m searching a file line by line for the occurrence of ##random_string##. It works except for the case of multiple #...

pattern=\'##(.*?)##\'
prog=re.compile(p         


        

Answer 1

have you considered doing it non-regex way?

>>> string='lala ####hey## there'
>>> string.split("####")[1].split("#")[0]
'hey'