I m trying to remove a ' and a , from Python regexp I came up with: So that I would have the following matching string instead of Thanks in advance. Answer i think you missed the matching ', and the result should be m.group(1) should be:

How to exclude apostrophe and comma in python regex

I m trying to remove a ‘ and a , from Python regexp

I came up with:

regex = re.compile("[^']*.dbf[^,]*")

file_handle = open(file)
for line in file_handle:
    m = regex.match(line)
    if m:
        print m.group()

So that I would have the following matching string

/u01/app/data/ORCL/system01.dbf

instead of

 [blank spaces]'/u01/app/data/ORCL/system01.dbf',

Thanks in advance.

regex = re.compile(r"[^'](*.dbf)'?[^,]*")

i think you missed the matching ‘, and the result should be m.group(1)

should be:

regex = re.compile(r"([^']*.dbf)'?[^,]*")