How to extract data from a string with Python Regular Expressions?

The following code extracts data like first_id, second_id, category from given strings

Example

import re
s = 'TS001B01.JPG'
match = re.match(r'(TS\d+)([A|B])(\d+)\.JPG', s)
first_id = match.group(1)
category = match.group(2)
second_id = match.group(3)
print first_id
print category
print second_id

Output

This gives output

TS001
B
01

Rajendra Dharmkar

Updated on: 20-Feb-2020

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