On Aug 19, 1:13 pm, John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering > Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the > examples. > > One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = ".\n"' which, > rather than splitting a file into lines, splits on a period-newline > boundary. Combined with Perl's 'while (<>)' construct this seems a great > way to process the files I am interested in. > > Without wishing to start a flame war, is there a way to do this in Python? > > Regards, John > -- > War is God's way of teaching Americans geography > Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
Python has a Regular Expressions module. Check it out here: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html There's also a chapter from Dive Into Python that covers this topic too: http://www.diveintopython.org/regular_expressions/index.html Finally, Python "while" statement's docs can be found here: http://docs.python.org/ref/while.html Hope that helps! Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
