made error on last line... read as... > I would be saying if forward-slash AND asterisk appear in this order... > negate
-- -- Andrew "Andrew Rekdal @comcast.net>" <<nospam> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I hope posting is ok here for this question... > > I am attempting to extract the text from a CSS comment using 're' such > as... > > string = "/* CSS comment /*" > exp = "[^(/*)].*[^(*/)] " > > p = re.compile(exp) > q = p.search(string) > r = q.group() > > print r > >>>CSS comment > > although this works to a degree... I know the within the brackets > everything is taken literally so the pattern > I am to negating is "(/*)". ie. includes the parenthesis. > > So my question is... > > Is there a way to negate a pattern that is more than on character long? > eg. where rather than saying if forward slash OR astrisk appear..negate. > > I would be saying if parenthesis AND asterisk appear in this order... > negate > > > -- Andrew > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
