On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Yuri Slobodyanyuk <yuri.slobodyan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good day everyone, > I am trying to make this pretty simple regex to work but got stuck, > I'd appreciate your help .
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." <snip> > 1111111 Fri 4 8 2011 > 2323232 Fri 4 15 2011 > 4343434 Fri 4 22 2011 > 8522298 Fri 4 29 2011 > ......... > 5456678 Fri 10 28 2011 > 5633333 Fri 11 4 2011 > 4141411 Fri 11 11 2011 > 3324444 Fri 11 18 2011 There's no need to use regexes to parse such a simple file format. Just use str.split() [without any arguments] on each line of the file, and do the field equality checks yourself; your code will simpler. Relevant docs: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.split Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
