Python正则表达式-查找两个定界符之间的所有子字符串

Question

I've been dealing with this problem for over a day already and i just can't figure it out..

The problem i have is following: Given the text:

Obratite pažnju na sljedece:
Pad prometa
Rentabilnost imovine
Neto maržu

**************************************************************

I need to extract all the text that is between word "sljedece:" ( without qouatiton marks) and the row of asterisks.

I tried to use the following code:

import re

text =  """
Obratite pažnju na sljedece:
Pad prometa
Rentabilnost imovine
Neto maržu

**************************************************************
"""
pattern = r"sljecece:(.*?)\*+"
napomene = re.findall(pattern, text)

print(napomene)

But it prints out an empty list.

Thx to everyone in advance!

Answer 1

You have to pass re.DOTALL to make . match newlines:

re.findall(pattern, text, re.DOTALL)

You also have a typo on your pattern r"sljecece:(.*?)\\*+" should be r"sljedece:(.*?)\\*+" .

Answer 2

To be more efficient, you can limit the impact of the lazy quantifier grabbing entire lines until the asterisk line:

re.findall(r'\bsljedece:((?:.*\n)+?)\*+$', text, re.M)

Perhaps the re.search method is more appropriate in your case.