Hi I encountered problem with dolar sign in source string. It seems that $ require special threatening. Below is copy of session with interactive Python's shell:
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 8 2009, 12:17:37) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> a = unicode(r"(instead of $399.99)", "utf8") >>> print re.search(unicode(r"^\(instead of.*(\d+[.]\d+)\)$", "utf8"), a).group(1) 9.99 >>> print re.search(unicode(r"^\(.*(\d+[.]\d+)\)$", "utf8"), a).group(1) 9.99 >>> print re.search(unicode(r"^\(.*\$(\d+[.]\d+)\)$", "utf8"), a).group(1) 399.99 My question is: Why only third regular expression is correct? Please help! It boggles my mind. Jax -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
