python regex

gistfile1.txt

I know I'm doing all types of wrong here:

Source HTML file here: http://mdpi.com/1420-3049/19/4/5150/htm

I want the text for the dc.source:

Molecules 2014, Vol. 19, Pages 5150-5162

Am using beautiful soup, so probably best to do it in that BUT it should also be regex-able. I can do this in bash no problem!

hand = open('1420-3049.19.4.5150.htm')
for ling in hand:
    ling = ling.rstrip()
    if re.search('name="dc.source"', ling) :
        bibinfo = ling.strip('\<').strip('>')
        print bibinfo+" "+originalurl

output:

<meta name="dc.source" content="Molecules 2014, Vol. 19, Pages 5150-5162" http://mdpi.com/1420-3049/19/4/5150/htm

#NotWhatIWanted / nor expected

For the record (Hacky McHack) - this should get the string you want in bibinfo. I think you might also want to set re.I = True as I HTML is supposed to be case insensitive in tag and attribute names.

for ling in hand:
match = re.search('<.*meta.*dc\.source.*content\=[\"\'](.*)[\"\']',ling)
if match:
print ling, match.group(1)
bibinfo = match.group(1)

Output with that test file:
<meta name="dc.source" content="Molecules 2014, Vol. 19, Pages 5150-5162">
Molecules 2014, Vol. 19, Pages 5150-5162
>>> bibinfo
'Molecules 2014, Vol. 19, Pages 5150-5162'

Oops - didn't notice you'd already put the beautiful soup version up. A better way to skin this particular cat :)