Hello Philippe, > What I would rather do is. > > "get the data block that is _not_ between brackets or parenthesis i.e; 'xx > xx > xx xx xx xx xx' knowing that the intial string could be: See http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html and search for "negative lookahead"
HTH. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Miki Tebeka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tebeka.spymac.net The only difference between children and adults is the price of the toys -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list