On 10:30 Mon 20 Aug , Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Something like this maybe? > > import re > > input_data = """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? > """ > > for para in re.split(r"\.\n", input_data): > print "para = %r" % para >
Thanks, that looks promising. The Perl examples are really confusing sometimes and throw me off the track of the obvious Python way. That said, the Python documentation does not always make it clear, at least not to me, how to get the result one wants. Regards, John -- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
