How to extract substring between two characters Python

Question

I'm a Python newbie and I need to extract a substring between two characters how can I do?

Example:

Mail field:

mail:"[email protected]"

I need to extract the substring: [email protected]

Many thanks for your help, Marco

Answer 1

You can use split()

text = 'Mail mail:"[email protected]"'
email = text.split('"')[1]