Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>> match = STX + '(.*)' + ETX
>>
>> # Example 1
>> # This appears to work, but I'm not sure if the '+' is being used in
>> the regular expression, or if it's just joining STX, '(.*)', and ETX.
>>
>> if re.search(STX + '(.*)' + ETX,data):
>> print "Matches"
>>
>> # Example 2
>> # This also appears to work
>> if re.search(match,data):
>> print "Matches"
> You may want something like:
> if re.search('%s(.*)%s' % (STX, ETX), data):
> ...
that's of course the same thing as examples 1 and 2.
a tip to the original poster: if you're not sure what an expression does,
try printing the result. use "print repr(v)" if the value may contain odd
characters. try adding this to your test script:
print repr(match)
print repr(STX + '(.*)' + ETX)
print repr('%s(.*)%s' % (STX, ETX))
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