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  1. import re
  2. text = """I am: "eating", mango
  3. I am: eating a pine apple; and mango"""
  4. rx = re.compile(r'^(I am:\s*)("[^"]*"|[^;]*)')
  5. for line in text.splitlines():
  6. 	m = rx.search(line)
  7. 	if m:
  8. 		print("{}{}".format(m.group(1), m.group(2).strip('"')))
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 9448KB
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Standard input is empty
stdout 
I am: eating
I am: eating a pine apple
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Python 3 (python  3.12)
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5 years ago
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