On Sep 16, 10:18 am, "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to filter spam from a certain company. Here are examples of > strings found in their spam: > Mega Dik > Mega D1k > MegaDik > Mega. Dik > M eg ad ik > M E _G_A_D_ IK > M_E_G. ADI. K > > I figured that this regex would match all but the second example, yet > it matches none: > |[^a-z]m[^a-z]e[^a-z]g[^a-z]a[^a-z]d[^a-z]i[^a-z]k[^a-z]|i > > What would be the regex that matches "megadik" regardless of whatever > characters are sprinkled throughout? > > Thanks in advance. > > Dotan
Or you could try using "MegaRegex"! I do and my girlfriend can't stop talking about it! :) -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list