Re: [Pyparsing] Check for tabs

[Mario R. O. <nim...@gm...>]

I'm by no means an expert, but a couple of years ago I did finish what I
like to call a medium difficulty parser. Yes you can definetly do that with
pyparse and regex


Dtb/Gby
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Mario R. Osorio
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Hanchel Cheng <han...@br...>wrote:

> Regardless of "all [I] have," I'd like to know if pyparser can check for a
> specific number of tabs between alphanumeric strings. If there are not two
> tabs between the 2nd and 3rd word, I'd like to error out. Is pyparsing
> truly overkill for this task?
>
> Thanks,
> Hanchel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diez B. Roggisch [mailto:de...@we...]
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 1:58 PM
> To: Hanchel Cheng
> Cc: pyp...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Pyparsing] Check for tabs
>
> >
> > I'm new to pyparsing and relatively new to Python as well. I'm really
> astounded by the multitude of functionality that pyparsing has.
> > My question is pretty basic:
> > I have a string 'name\tdate\t\tlocation'.
> > What would I do to ensure that between the 'name' and 'date' there is
> exactly one tab and between 'date' and 'location' there is exactly two tabs?
>
> If that's all you have, I would forego pyparsing and use single
> string-functions like
>
>  name, date, _, location = line.split("\t")
>
> plus of course some error-handling.
>
> Diez
>
>
>
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