I have text like: I want to extract the characters as a list between a. For the above text, I am expecting output like: I have used: But it doesn't work. Answer The ^ and $ will only match the beginning and end of a line, respectively. In this case, you will get the desired list by using the line:

How to extract the value between the key using RegEx?

I have text like:

"abababba"

JavaScript
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"abababba"
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I want to extract the characters as a list between a. For the above text, I am expecting output like:

['b', 'b', 'bb']

JavaScript
 
['b', 'b', 'bb']
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I have used:

re.split(r'^a(.*?)a$', data)

JavaScript
 
re.split(r'^a(.*?)a$', data)
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But it doesn’t work.

The ^ and $ will only match the beginning and end of a line, respectively. In this case, you will get the desired list by using the line:

re.split(r'a(.*?)a', data)[1:-1]

JavaScript
 
re.split(r'a(.*?)a', data)[1:-1]
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