I always have no idea about how to express "conclude the entire word" with regexp, while using python, I encountered this problem again...
for example, if I want to match the "string" in "test a string", re.findall(r"[^a]* (\w+)","test a string") will work, but what if there is not "a" but "an"(test a string)? the [^an] will failed because it will stop at the first character "a". I guess people not always use this kind of way to filter words? Here comes the real problem I encountered: I want to filter the text both in "<td>" block and the "<span>"'s title attribute ###################### code ############################# import re content='''<tr align="center" valign="middle" class="CellCss"><td valign="middle">LA</td><td valign="middle">11/10/2008</td><td valign="middle">1340/1430</td><td valign="middle">PF1/5</td><td valign="middle"><span title="Understanding the stock market" class="MouseCursor">Understand....</span></td><td title="Charisma" valign="middle">Charisma</td><td valign="middle">Booked</td><td valign="middle">''' re.findall(r'''<td valign="middle">([^<]+)</td><td valign="middle">([^<]+)</td><td valign="middle">([^<]+)</td><td valign="middle">([^<]+)</td><td valign="middle"><span title="([^"]*)"''',content) #################### code end ############################ As you saw above, I get the results with "LA,11/10/2008,1340/1430,PF1/5,Understanding the stock market" there are two "<span>" block but I can just get the "title" attribute of the first "<span>" using regexp. for the second, which should be "Charisma" I need to use some kind of [^</td>]* to match "class="MouseCursor">Understand....</span></td>", then I can continue match the second "<span>" block. Maybe I didn't describe this clearly, then feel free to tell me:) thanks for any further reply! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
