yeah.. thats possible.. thanks :) On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:21:03PM +0530, Neha Jain wrote: > > > > > but the problem with this is that the line where I am searching for may > be > > like.. #define ABC_PG... so may be something for the start of the word > type > > matching may help.. \b?? i am not sure.. > > The reason that second pattern is inclusive of the first one, makes it > bit tricky. > > You can also consider to do it two steps with splitting the words and > verify that simpler strings do not startswith 'ABC_' pattern. > > > >>> for each in re.split('\W','#define ABC_CDF\nAB_CDF'): > ['', 'define', 'ABC_CDF', 'AB_CDF'] > > -- > Senthil > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Smiles Neha ))))) _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers