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  1. import re
  2.  
  3. str_to_search = 'abababsonab, etc'
  4. second = re.search(r'(?:.(?!son))+', str_to_search)
  5. print(second.group())
  6.  
Success #stdin #stdout 0.04s 9440KB
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stdin 
Standard input is empty
stdout 
ababa
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language:
Python 3 (python  3.12)
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11 years ago
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