Guy Doune schrieb:
Hi,
I try to figure out what gonna be the equivalent of :
(.*?)
For the same purpose on multiline basis.
I would like completed the variable part of elements that I searching for.
Example :
<table width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
align="center">
Is the begining of the variable element that I wanna completed...
</table>
Is the end of the element, so, I would like to completed what between
those two patterns.
pattern1+r"(.*?)"+pattern2
Was working ok for a single line selection like :
<table width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
align="center">"variable element of the search"</table>
I hoped that I have been clear.
See the flags of module re - especially re.DOTALL.
However, you just experience that regular expresions aren't the proper
tool for the job of dealing with HTML/XML.
What would you do if for example a table was nested inside another?
Instead, use tools like BeautifulSoup or lxml which provide
error-tolerant HTML-parsers and expression/filter-based element
extraction. That's much better suited for your task.
Diez
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