On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:20:24 +0100, meryl <silverburgh.me...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Jun 11, 9:41 pm, "Mark Tolonen" <metolone+gm...@gmail.com> wrote:
"meryl" <silverburgh.me...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> Hi,
> I have this regular expression
> blockRE = re.compile(".*RenderBlock {\w+}")
> it works if my source is "RenderBlock {CENTER}".
[snip]
-----------------------code----------------------
import re
pat = re.compile(r'Render(?:Block|Table) (?:\(\w+\)|{\w+})')
testdata = '''\
RenderTable {TABLE}
RenderBlock (CENTER)
RenderBlock {CENTER}
RenderTable {TABLE) #shouldn't match
'''
print pat.findall(testdata)
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Result:
['RenderTable {TABLE}', 'RenderBlock (CENTER)', 'RenderBlock {CENTER}']
-Mark
Thanks for both of your help. How can i modify the RegExp so that
both
RenderTable {TABLE}
and
RenderTable {TABLE} [text with a-zA-Z=SPACE0-9]
will match
I try adding ".*" at the end , but it ends up just matching the second
one.
Curious, it should work (and match rather more than you want, but
that's another matter. Try adding this instead:
'(?: \[[a-zA-Z= 0-9]*\])?'
Personally I'd replace all those spaces with \s* or \s+, but I'm
paranoid when it comes to whitespace.
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