Chris wrote: > 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.
Stop using the wrong tool for the job. Use lxml or BeautifulSoup to parse & access HTML. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
