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Hi all,

I have what I suspect is a day one rookie question yet for the life of me I can't find a good answer on the net. I need to extract a quoted substring from within a string like so:

Original String: This is a 'test'

Result: test

Is there a simple way to do this without using complex regex expressions? It goes without saying I don't know what will be within the quotes beforehand..... .


Thanks.
Sep 21 '06 #1
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  1. >>> s = "This is a 'test'"
  2. >>> for i in s.split():
  3. ...     if i.startswith("'") and i.endswith("'"):
  4. ...         print i[1:-1]
  5. test
  6.  
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