# Packages for text matching?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/packages-for-text-matching/60012
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** match, packages, pattern-matching
**Created:** [April 26, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/packages-for-text-matching/60012 "2021-04-26T03:02:07Z")
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### Author: ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/packages-for-text-matching/60012/6 "2021-04-26T08:07:18Z")

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FWIW: [Parse structured string to dictionary](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/parse-structured-string-to-dictionary/8126)

The Python solution is nice and easy. Would be great to have this in a package!

**Update:**

The example of the OP would just be this in Python:

```python
import parse
templ = "{First_Name}.{Last_Name}.{Age}"
dict = parse.parse(templ, "John.Smith,20")

```

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