Python's regex Get folder name between name=' and /'-CodePudding

I want to extract all the folder names between "name='" and "/'" under a list of strings using regex

string = "FileInfo(path='dbfs:/mnt/34334324/folder1/', name='folder1/', size=0), FileInfo(path='dbfs:/mnt/34334324/folder2/', name='folder2/', size=0),"

expected result = [folder1, folder2]

This is running in databricks so things like

from glob import glob
glob("/mnt/targetfiles/*/", recursive = True)

is not working

CodePudding user response：

Is there always a "/" in the name? Yes

What happens if there are several? there are not several

Can the names contain escaped characters? no

Thus a simple regex would work:

import re
re.findall("(?<= name=').*?(?=/')", string)

output: ['folder1', 'folder2']

How it works:

(?<=name=')  # must be preceded by " name='"
.*?          # get the shortest string
(?=/')       # must be followed by "/'"