How to extract values from a string between delimiters

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extract values from a string between delimiters (/) but keep (\/)

string = "a/b\/c/d"

Expected output
['a', 'b\\/c', 'd']

What I have tried:

string = "a/b\/c/d"
string.split('/')
['a', 'b\\', 'c', 'd']

Posted 23-Mar-17 0:53am

learz

Updated 23-Mar-17 2:04am

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2017-03-23T02:04:00

You can use a regular expression split:

Python

import re

string = "a/b\/c/d"
print string.split('/')

pattern = "(?<!\\\\)/"
print re.split(pattern, string)

Output:

['a', 'b\\', 'c', 'd']
['a', 'b\\/c', 'd']

(?<!\\\\)/: Matches if the current position in the string is not preceded by a match for the back slash.