[Zope] Finding a phone number in a python script

[Dieter Maurer]

Schmidt, Allen J. writes:
 > I have a block of text that contains a phone number in the format of
 > 888/123-4567 and I need to identify that sequence when it occurs and somehow
 > extract it, and return it to Zope without the slash or the dash.
 > 
 > Without regex in Python scripts, is there any way to do this? 
You can use "split":

    If "s" contains the phone number string "888/123-4567", then

       s.split('/')[0]	gives you "888"
       s.split('-')[-1] gives you "4567"
       s.split('-')[0].split('/')[-1] gives you "123"


Dieter