Extract string from HTML String

Question

i want to extract a number from a html string (i usually do not know the number).

The crucial part looks like this:

Answer 1

If the string "TOTAL : number" is unique then use a regular expression to first search this substring and then extract the number from it.

import re

string = 'test test="3" test="search_summary_figure WHR WVM">TOTAL : 286'

reg__expr = r'TOTAL\s:\s\d+'  # TOTAL:
# find the substring
result = re.findall(reg__expr, string)
if result:

   substring = result[0]

   reg__expr = r'\d+'  # 
   result = re.findall(reg__expr, substring)
   number = int(result[0])

   print(number)

You can test your own regular expressions here https://regex101.com/