Steve, I thought Fredrik Lundh's proposal was perfect. Are you now saying it doesn't solve your problem because your description of the problem was incomplete? If so, could you post a worst case piece of htm, one that contains all possible complications, or a collection of different cases all of which you need to handle?
Frederic ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python To: <python-list@python.org> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 11:35 PM Subject: Re: Regular Expression question > Hi, thanks everyone for the information! Still going through it :) > > The reason I did not match on tag2 in my original expression (and I > apologize because I should have mentioned this before) is that other > tags could also have an attribute with the value of "adj__" and the > attribute name may not be the same for the other tags. The only thing I > can be sure of is that the value will begin with "adj__". > > I need to match the "adj__" value with the closest preceding tag1 > irrespective of what tag the "adj__" is in, or what the attribute > holding it is called, or the order of the attributes (there may be > others). This data will be inside an html page and so there will be > plenty of html tags in the middle all of which I need to ignore. > > Thanks very much! > Steve > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
