From this list:
['AUSTRALIA\nBELMONT PARK (WA', '\nR3\n1/5/4/2\n2/3/1/5\nEAGLE FARM (QLD']
I would like to reduce it to this list:
['BELMONT PARK', 'EAGLE FARM']
You can see from the first list that the desired words are between '\n' and '('.
My attempted solution is:
for i in x:
result = re.search('\n(.*)(', i)
print(result.group(1))
This returns the error 'unterminated subpattern'. Thankyou
You’re getting an error because the ( is unescaped. Regardless, it will not work, as you’ll get the following matches:
\nBELMONT PARK (\nR3\n1/5/4/2\n2/3/1/5\nEAGLE FARM (You can try the following:
(?<=\\n)(?!.*\\n)(.*)(?= \()
(?<=\\n): Positive lookbehind to ensure \n is before match(?!.*\\n): Negative lookahead to ensure no further \n is included(.*): Your match(?= \(): Positive lookahead to ensure ( is after match