Extract string from between quotations – Python

In this article, we will learn to extract strings in between the quotations using Python.

Method 1:

To extract strings in between the quotations we can use findall() method from re library.

Python3

import re
inputstring = ' some strings are present in between "geeks" "for" "geeks" '

print(re.findall('"([^"]*)"', inputstring))

Output:

['geeks', 'for', 'geeks']

Method 2:

We can extract strings in between the quotations using split() method and slicing.

Python3

inputstring = 'some strings are present in between "geeks" "for" "geeks" '

"""
here split() method will split the string for every quotation ( " ) .i.e.
['some strings are present in between ', 'geeks', ' ', 'for', ' ', 'geeks', ' '].

Then we will be storing all the strings at odd index.

"""

result = inputstring.split('"')[1::2]
print(result);

Output:

['geeks', 'for', 'geeks']

Time Complexity: O(n)
Auxiliary Space: O(1)

Here you can learn more about Regular Expressions and list slicing in python.

Method 3: Using startswith(),endswith() and replace() methods

Python3

inputstring = 'some strings are present in between "geeks" "for" "geeks" '
result = inputstring.split()
res=[]
for i in result:
    if(i.startswith('"') and i.endswith('"')):
        i=i.replace('"',"")
        res.append(i)
print(res)

Output

['geeks', 'for', 'geeks']