What regex should I use for matching such text
/product="hypothetical protein"".
by far I have tired this pattern:
x = re.match(r"^s*\=product(.*)",line)"
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Answer
Use
import re
test_str = ' /product="hypothetical protein"'
match = re.search(r'product="([^"]+)"', test_str)
if match:
print(match.group(1))
See regex proof.
EXPLANATION
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product=" 'product="'
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( group and capture to 1:
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[^"]+ any character except: '"' (1 or more
times (matching the most amount
possible))
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) end of 1
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" '"'