Identify a string pattern

[ddrillich]

Good Day,

I would like to identify whether a string has the following format: 'any char sequence.... SF Jun 23 2006'.
It's a sequence of characters followed by SF and then a date in this specific format.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dan

 

[StoneDeCroze]

from time import strptime
str = 'jdhgjkdfhgjsdhgklhsdljSF Jun 23 2006'
try:
MyDate = strptime(str[-11:], '%b %d %Y')
ValidDate = 1
except:
ValidDate = 0

if str[-14:-12]=='SF' and ValidDate:
print 'string is of correct format'
else:
print 'string is NOT correct'

Hope this works for you.
Peter