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#1 wisam abbasi  Icon User is offline

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splitting text file

Posted 30 March 2011 - 05:18 PM

Hi
I am having a problem in splitting an HTML docuement stored in a text file
according to the <div> tag.

I can split the document into paragraphs using:
p = re.compile('[\n]')
s2 = p.sub('',s)


where s is the text
but how to split according to <div (not <div> or </div>)???

I've tried to use:
p = re.compile('<div')
s2 = p.sub('',s)

but it did not work.

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Re: splitting text file

Posted 31 March 2011 - 09:59 AM

What sort of results do you get from 
p = re.compile('<div')
s2 = p.sub('',s)

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Re: splitting text file

Posted 04 April 2011 - 07:26 AM

View Postatraub, on 31 March 2011 - 10:59 AM, said:

What sort of results do you get from 
p = re.compile('<div')
s2 = p.sub('',s)


mmmmmm
sorry, I've forgot what were the results.
anyway it wasn't the right solution for my problem.
I had to split the document using word indexes.
:sweatdrop:
Thanks
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Re: splitting text file

Posted 04 April 2011 - 09:44 AM

It does kind of depend what you're after. It really doesn't make sense to blast <div without the closing tag...

Perhaps:
>>> s = '<html><div><div id="foo"><p>Hi</p></div></div>'
>>> s
'<html><div><div id="foo"><p>Hi</p></div></div>'
>>> re.compile('<div [^>]*>').sub('',s)
'<html><div><p>Hi</p></div></div>'
>>>

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Re: splitting text file

Posted 04 April 2011 - 10:50 AM

View Postbaavgai, on 04 April 2011 - 10:44 AM, said:

It does kind of depend what you're after. It really doesn't make sense to blast <div without the closing tag...

Perhaps:
>>> s = '<html><div><div id="foo"><p>Hi</p></div></div>'
>>> s
'<html><div><div id="foo"><p>Hi</p></div></div>'
>>> re.compile('<div [^>]*>').sub('',s)
'<html><div><p>Hi</p></div></div>'
>>>


Thanks alot
and I said before
anyway it wasn't the right solution for my problem.
Thanks for the help
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