On Aug 12, 1:23 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:12:22 -0700, Martin wrote: > > I tried > > > re.findall((\w+COORDINATE).*\s+VALUE\s+=\s([\d\.\w-]+),s) > > You need to put quotes around strings. > > In this case, because you're using regular expressions, you should use a > raw string: > > re.findall(r"(\w+COORDINATE).*\s+VALUE\s+=\s([\d\.\w-]+)",s) > > will probably work. > > -- > Steven
Thanks I see. so I tried it and if I use it as it is, it matches the first instance: I n [594]: re.findall(r"(\w+COORDINATE).*\s+VALUE\s+=\s([\d\.\w-]+)",s) Out[594]: [('NORTHBOUNDINGCOORDINATE', '1')] So I adjusted the first part of the regex, on the basis I could sub NORTH for SOUTH etc. In [595]: re.findall(r"(NORTHBOUNDINGCOORDINATE).*\s+VALUE\s+=\s([\d\. \w-]+)",s) Out[595]: [('NORTHBOUNDINGCOORDINATE', '1')] But in both cases it doesn't return the decimal value rather the value that comes after NUM_VAL = , rather than VALUE = ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list