On 11/12/2010 5:51 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:21:04 -0800, Martin Kaspar wrote: > >> hello dear list! >> >> i'm very new to programming and self teaching myself. I'm having a >> problem with a little project. >> > This doesn't directly help with your problem, but the tool at this URL: > http://www.solmetra.com/scripts/regex/ > > may be useful when you're experimenting with regexes or testing them. > Perl regexes are similar enough to Python regexes for this tool to be > useful here. > > Without examples of text that the regex is intended to match its > difficult to say more. > > Or you could look at the Kodos tool, which is written in Python and will tell you exactly what a Python pattern will and will not match.
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