T: > I meant to say: Search for any character in r'/\:*?"<>|' in a string
You don't need a RE to solve such problem. There are many ways to solve it, this is one of the simpler (Python 2.4+): >>> chars = set(r'/\:*?"<>|') >>> s1 = "is this a sample string?" >>> bool( set(s1) & chars ) True >>> s2 = "this is a sample" >>> set(s2).intersection(r'/\:*?"<>|') set([]) Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
