--- On Tue, 11/30/10, goldtech <goldt...@worldpost.com> wrote:
> From: goldtech <goldt...@worldpost.com>
> Subject: regular expression help
> To: python-list@python.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 9:17 AM
> The regex is eating up too much. What I want is every
> non-overlapping
> occurrence I think.
>
> so rtt would be:
>
> 'oooo||flfllff||ooo'
>
Hi, I'll just let Python do most of the talk here.
>>> import re
>>> m="oooocccvlvlvlvnnnflfllffccclfnnnooo"
>>> p=re.compile(r'ccc.*?nnn')
>>> p.sub("||", m)
'oooo||flfllff||ooo'
Cheers,
Yingjie
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