On Oct 1, 6:16 pm, Daryl Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to locate all lines in a suite of files with quoted strings of
> particular lengths. A search pattern like r'".{15}"' finds 15-character
> strings very nicely. But I have some very long ones, and a pattern like
> r'".{272}"' fails miserably, even though I know I have at least one
> 272-character string.
>
> In the short term, I can resort to locating the character positions of the
> quotes, but this seemed like such an elegant solution I hate to see it not
> work. The program is given below (sans imports), in case someone can spot
> something I'm overlooking:
>
> # Example usage: search.py *.txt \".{15}\"
> filePattern = sys.argv[1]
> searchPattern = sys.argv[2]
> cpat = re.compile(searchPattern)
Most shells will expand *.txt to the list of files that match, so
you'll end up with the first .txt file as your 'filePattern', and the
second as the regexp. Could that be it?
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