Hi there I just started python (but this question isn't that trivial since I couldn't find it in google :) )
I have the following text file entries (simplified) start #frag 1 start x=Dog # frag 1 end stop start # frag 2 start x=Cat # frag 2 end stop start #frag 3 start x=Dog #frag 3 end stop .... I need a regex expression which returns the start to the x=ANIMAL for only the x=Dog fragments so all my entries should be start ... (something here) ... x=Dog . So I am really interested in fragments 1 and 3 only. My idea (primitive) ^start.*?x=Dog doesn't work because clearly it would return results start x=Dog # (good) and start x=Cat stop start x=Dog # bad since I only want start ... x=Dog portion Can you help me ? Thanks JP, Malta. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
