[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > Hello, > > I am having some difficulty creating a regular expression for the > following string situation in html. I want to find a table that has > specific text in it and then extract the html just for that immediate > table. > > the string would look something like this: > > ...stuff here... > <table> > ...stuff here... > <table> > ...stuff here... > <table> > ... > text i'm searching for > ... > </table> > ...stuff here... > </table> > ...stuff here... > </table> > ...stuff here... > > > My question: is there a way in RE to say: "when I find this text I'm > looking for, search backwards and find the immediate instance of the > string "<table>" and then search forwards and find the immediate > instance of the string "</table>". " ? > > any help is appreciated. > > Steve.
It would have been easier if you'd said what the text you are looking for is, but I think: regex = re.compile( r'<table>(.*?text you are looking for.*?)</table>', re.DOTALL ) match = regex.search( html_string ) found_table = match.group( 1 ) would work. /Odalrick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
