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string conversion

I’ve got a long string object which has been formatted like this

myString = "[name = john, family = candy, age = 72],[ name = jeff, family = Thomson, age = 24]"

of course the string is longer than this. Also i have 3 lists with related names:

Names = []
Families = []
Ages = []

I want to read that string character by character and take the data and append it into appropriate lists. Can anyone help me on this about how to separate the string into variables? The thing I need is something like this:

Names = ["john", "jeff", ...]
Families = ["candy", "Thomson", ...]
Ages = [72, 24, ...]

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  • +1 for using named groups instead of relying on the format of the data to not change. In a one off script, maybe it doesn't seem worth the trouble, but it seems that I spend a lot of time maintaining what were supposed to have been one-off scripts. Commented Oct 31, 2010 at 12:53

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