Parsing delimited string in python 3

Question

How would parse out a pipe delimited string in Python 3.0? My application is reading various barcodes in a random fashion. The barcodes are as below:

var = '07|415674|88881234564|3326'

I need to evaluate the length of each parsed variable and determine the one barcode I'm looking for.

Thanks for you help! TC

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '18 at 13:55

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Using the string.split() method you can give it a delimiter to split on. In this case

var.split('|')

will split var at every pipe and returns a list of strings

answered Oct 29 '18 at 13:55

samlli

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '18 at 13:55

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You can do something like:

values = '07|415674|88881234564|3326'
findLength = 4

for val in values.split("|"):
    if(len(val) == findLength):
        print("Found: " + val)

This splits the string on | and loops through the resulting array, checking the length of each value and printing it if it matches the findLength variable.

answered Oct 29 '18 at 13:55

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Thank you! Exactly what I needed... – todd328 Oct 31 '18 at 12:48

Parsing delimited string in python 3

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