多行正则表达式匹配python

Question

Below is my multi-line string.

sample='''
blah
blah
blah
blah
text.get(
'hi'
'you're
'welcome'
)
text.get(
'hi'
'i'm
'here'
> )
blah
blah
blah

I want to match based on the symbol > and get the relevant text in the in the brackets

text.get(
'hi'
'i'm
'here'
> )

I tried this code text(.+)\\((.*?)>(.*?)\\) and it matches both the instances of text.get.Can someone please help on this

Answer 1

Yoy can use

\btext\.\w+\([^()]*\n> \)

See the regex demo . Details :

• \\b - a word boundary
• text\\. - a text. substring
• \\w+\\( - one or more word chars and then an open parenthesis
• [^()]* - zero or more chars other than parentheses
• \\n> \\) - a newline, space and close parenthesis.

If you need to capture unknown parts of the match add the groups, eg

\btext\.(\w+)\(([^()]*)\n> \)

In Python, do not forget to use the raw string literal: r'...' .