I have following text data in a text file. the text has some HTML like tags but not uniform , as you see in the example , there are multiple tags , there is only one valid tag pair and i want to extract the text between the valid tags . text = ''' some text here <document> additional text here <document> The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly debated—results had shown: The universe is expanding faster than predicted by theoretical models, and faster than can be explained by our current understanding of physics.</document> ''' i tried using regular expression to see , if i can extract the text from valid set of document tags , but i get the entire contents of the file , when i print it out. any thoughts? import re with open('data.txt', 'r') as f: text = f.read() input = re.findall(r"<document>.*?</document>", text, re.DOTALL) for i in input : print(i) Continue reading...
