我如何找到两个子字符串('123STRINGabc' -> '字符串')之间的字符串?

我现在的方法是这样的:

>>> start = 'asdf=5;'
>>> end = '123jasd'
>>> s = 'asdf=5;iwantthis123jasd'
>>> print((s.split(start))[1].split(end)[0])
iwantthis

然而,这似乎非常低效且不符合python规则。有什么更好的方法来做这样的事情吗?

忘了说: 字符串可能不是以start和end开始和结束的。他们可能会有更多的字符之前和之后。


当前回答

只是把OP自己的解决方案转换成一个答案:

def find_between(s, start, end):
    return (s.split(start))[1].split(end)[0]

其他回答

要提取STRING,请尝试:

myString = '123STRINGabc'
startString = '123'
endString = 'abc'

mySubString=myString[myString.find(startString)+len(startString):myString.find(endString)]

字符串格式为Nikolaus Gradwohl的建议增加了一些灵活性。开始和结束现在可以根据需要进行修改。

import re

s = 'asdf=5;iwantthis123jasd'
start = 'asdf=5;'
end = '123jasd'

result = re.search('%s(.*)%s' % (start, end), s).group(1)
print(result)
from timeit import timeit
from re import search, DOTALL


def partition_find(string, start, end):
    return string.partition(start)[2].rpartition(end)[0]


def re_find(string, start, end):
    # applying re.escape to start and end would be safer
    return search(start + '(.*)' + end, string, DOTALL).group(1)


def index_find(string, start, end):
    return string[string.find(start) + len(start):string.rfind(end)]


# The wikitext of "Alan Turing law" article form English Wikipeida
# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Turing_law&action=edit&oldid=763725886
string = """..."""
start = '==Proposals=='
end = '==Rival bills=='

assert index_find(string, start, end) \
       == partition_find(string, start, end) \
       == re_find(string, start, end)

print('index_find', timeit(
    'index_find(string, start, end)',
    globals=globals(),
    number=100_000,
))

print('partition_find', timeit(
    'partition_find(string, start, end)',
    globals=globals(),
    number=100_000,
))

print('re_find', timeit(
    're_find(string, start, end)',
    globals=globals(),
    number=100_000,
))

结果:

index_find 0.35047444528454114
partition_find 0.5327825636197754
re_find 7.552149639286381

在这个例子中,Re_find几乎比index_find慢20倍。

s[len(start):-len(end)]

我的方法是,

find index of start string in s => i
find index of end string in s => j

substring = substring(i+len(start) to j-1)