Hello everyone.
I'm having a problem when extracting data from HTML with regular
expressions.
This is the source code:
You are ready in the next<br /><span id="counter_jt_ minutes"
style="display: inline;"><span id="counter_jt_ minutes_value"> 12</
span>M</span<span id="counter_jt_ seconds" style="display:
inline;"><span id="counter_jt_ seconds_value"> 48</span>S</span>
And I need to get the remaining time. Until here, isn't a problem
getting it, but if the remaining time is less than 60 seconds then the
source becomes something like this:
You are ready in the next<br /><span id="counter_jt_ seconds"
style="display: inline;"><span id="counter_jt_ seconds_value"> 36</
span>S</span>
I'm using this regular expression, but the minutes are always None...
You are ready in the next.*?(?:>(\d+ )</span>M</span>)?.*?(?:>( \d+)</
span>S</span>)
If I remove the ? from the first group, then it will work, but if
there are only seconds it won't work.
I could resolve this problem in a couple of python lines, but I really
would like to solve it with regular expressions.
Thanks,
Pedro Abranches
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On Jun 22, 10:13*pm, abranches <pedrof.abranc. ..@gmail.comwro te:
Hello everyone.
I'm having a problem when extracting data from HTML with regular
expressions.
This is the source code:
You are ready in the next<br /><span id="counter_jt_ minutes"
style="display: inline;"><span id="counter_jt_ minutes_value"> 12</
span>M</span<span id="counter_jt_ seconds" style="display:
inline;"><span id="counter_jt_ seconds_value"> 48</span>S</span>
And I need to get the remaining time. Until here, isn't a problem
getting it, but if the remaining time is less than 60 seconds then the
source becomes something like this:
You are ready in the next<br /><span id="counter_jt_ seconds"
style="display: inline;"><span id="counter_jt_ seconds_value"> 36</
span>S</span>
I'm using this regular expression, but the minutes are always None...
You are ready in the next.*?(?:>(\d+ )</span>M</span>)?.*?(?:>( \d+)</
span>S</span>)
If I remove the ? from the first group, then it will work, but if
there are only seconds it won't work.
I could resolve this problem in a couple of python lines, but I really
would like to solve it with regular expressions.
Your regex is working like this:
1. Match 'You are ready in the next'.
2. Match an increasing number of characters, starting with none
('.*?').
3. Try to match a pattern ('(?:>...)?') from where the previous step
left off. This doesn't match, but it's optional anyway, so continue to
the next step. (No characters consumed.)
4. Match an increasing number of characters, starting from none
('.*?'). It's this step that consumes the minutes.
It then goes on to match the seconds, and the minutes are always None
as you've found.
I've come up with this regex:
You are ready in the next(?:.*?>(\d+ )</span>M</span>)?(?:.*?>( \d+)</
span>S</span>)
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