Dotan Cohen schreef: > 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?
m[^a-z]*e[^a-z]*g[^a-z]*a[^a-z]*d[^a-z]*i[^a-z]*k FYI Kodos (http://kodos.sourceforge.net/) can be very useful for developing, testing and debugging such regexes. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
