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Re: [Gnumed-devel] help with trimming $
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Horst Herb |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] help with trimming $ |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:01:11 +1100 |
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:51, Tim Churches wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking you just want to keep everything after the first
> space? If so, one efficinet method is to split on spaces, and rejoin all
> but the first element:
>
> mystring = " ".join(mystring.split()[1:])
Far more efficient:
datestr, text = stringtoparse.split(" ", 1)
...
date = parse_date(datestr)
with parse_date parsing as outlined (or using a tried and proven date parsiing
library)
Horst