Perl s/ To Python?

[John Abel]

Does anyone know of a quick way of performing this:

$testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##g

The only way I can think of doing it, is:

mailPos = testVar.find( "mail" )
remainder = testVar[ :mailPos ]

Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm iterating over a lot of entries,
and running these lines for each entry.

J

 

[JZ]

Dnia Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:57:21 +0100, John Abel napisa³(a):

$testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##g

The only way I can think of doing it, is:

mailPos = testVar.find( "mail" )
remainder = testVar[ :mailPos ]

Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm iterating over a lot of entries,
and running these lines for each entry.

import re
testVar = re.compile(r'/mail/.*$').sub('', testVar)

 

[John Abel]

Dnia Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:57:21 +0100, John Abel napisa³(a):

$testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##g

The only way I can think of doing it, is:

mailPos = testVar.find( "mail" )
remainder = testVar[ :mailPos ]

Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm iterating over a lot of entries,
and running these lines for each entry.

import re
testVar = re.compile(r'/mail/.*$').sub('', testVar)

That's brill. Never even thought if using re. Thank you!

J