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More Regular Expressions: Using Lookarounds to Parse Data

While using regular expressions, lookarounds allow us to create zero-width boundaries where the boundaries are also regular expressions. This will enable us to ensure that our primary expression either begins or ends with the provided lookaround or does _not_ begin or end with the provided lookaround. The expression in the lookaround is matched, but not captured, so the resulting match is only the non-lookaround text. This allows us to fine-tune our expressions and ensure we're only matching what we want.

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 0m
Published
Clock icon Nov 14, 2018

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Remove excess spacing from `highstate` file.

    Remove the additional spacing before each line in the highstate file.

  2. Challenge

    Using regular expressions to provide the desired data.

    Craft a regular expression that will result in only the __id__, __run_num__, and __sls__ lines from the highstate file.

  3. Challenge

    Create `sls-report.txt`.

    Save the newly-generated list of information to sls-report.txt.

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