[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i want to search a document for a particular regexp and then store > that regexp to a file.
> but search and match only returns matchobjects(what are those anyway? > i dont get what to do with them, do they contain true/false, > stringposition etc?) > how do i do: > for rows in file: > print regexp.find ## or something equiavlent Is this what you are trying to do: for row in file('/etc/services'): if re.match('^ssh', row): print row Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list