On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:06 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Is there any particularly good reason why you're using regexps for this rather than, say, an actual (X)HTML parser? Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com > ###################### 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 > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
