How to extract text between specific letters from a string in Python(3.9)?-CodePudding

how may I be able to take from a string in python a value that is in a given text but is inside it, it's between 2 letters that I want it to copy from inside. e.g.

"Kahoot : ID:1234567 Name:RandomUSERNAME"

I want it to receive the 1234567 and the RandomUSERNAME in 2 different variables. a way I found to catch is to get it between the "ID:"COPYINPUT until the SPACE., "Name:"COPYINPUT until the end of the text.

How do I code this?

if I hadn't explained correctly tell me, I don't know how to ask/format this question! Sorry for any inconvenience!.

CodePudding user response：

If the text always follows the same format you could just split the string. Alternatively, you could use regular expressions using the re library.

Using split:

string = "Kahoot : ID:1234567 Name:RandomUSERNAME"

string = string.split(" ")

id = string[2][3:]
name = string[3][5:]

print(id)
print(name)

Using re:

import re

string = "Kahoot : ID:1234567 Name:RandomUSERNAME"

id = re.search(r'(?<=ID:).*?(?=\s)', string).group(0)
name = re.search(r'(?<=Name:).*', string).group(0)

print(id)
print(name)