On Dec 11, 11:41 am, garage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is what I'm trying to do possible with Python's Regex library? Is > > there an error in my Regex? > > Search for '*?' onhttp://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html. > > To get around the greedy single match, you can add a question mark > after the asterisk in the 'content' portion the the markup. This > causes it to take the shortest match, instead of the longest. eg > > <%(tagName)s\s[^>]*>[.\n\r\w\s\d\D\S\W]*?[^(%(tagName)s)]* > > There's still some funkiness in the regex and logic, but this gives > you the three matches
Thanks, that's pretty close to what I was looking for. How would I filter out tags that don't have certain text in the contents? I'm running into the same issue again. For instance, if I use the regex: <%(tagName)s\s[^>]*>[.\n\r\w\s\d\D\S\W]*?(targettext)+[^(% (tagName)s)]* each match will include "targettext". However, some matches will still include </%(tagName)s)>, presumably from the tags which didn't contain targettext. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
