how to extract data with regex in python?

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My data has this struture:

ID 12354 linea+b 3
ID 15687 linea+b 7
ID 26894 linea+b 10

This is my proposition: r'ID\s+([0-9]+)\s+linea+b\s+([0-9]+)\s+' The problem is with linea+b where python does not accept + as a string, it analyzes it as a metacharacter.

1. It's not Python, it's the regex engine. 2. You can escape it: `\+` — DeepSpace, Mar 10 '19 at 11:34

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '19 at 11:36

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You should add \ in front of + to recognize the symbol, not as an increment

r'ID\s+([0-9]+)\s+linea\+b\s+([0-9]+)\s+'

answered Mar 10 '19 at 11:36

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