I have a string like this:
'Medicine Treatment: Not applicable'
Now, I want to match the according treatment but without the white spaces infront of the treatment. So I just want to match: "Not applicable" and not " Not applicable"
Im pretty sure it must be something like this:
(?<=Medicine Treatment:)[^\s].*
or (?<=Medicine Treatment:)\S.*
... (?<=Medicine Treatment:).* returns only what I do not want: " Not applicable"
Python re does not support patterns matching strings of unknown length (though it is possible with PyPi regex module). So, you can't use re.search(r'(?<=Medicine Treatment:\s*).*', txt) (it would work with PyPi regex.search).
You may use a capturing group instead of a lookbehind:
import re
s = 'Medicine Treatment: Not applicable'
m = re.search(r'Medicine Treatment:\s*(.*)', s)
if m:
print(m.group(1)) # => Not applicable
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