> Hi Josh,
> thanks for the reply. I am no expert so please bear with me:
> I thought that the {32} was supposed to match the previous expression 32
> times?
>
> So how can i have all matches accessible to me?$ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> data '1.002000e+01 2.037000e+01 2.128000e+01 1.908000e+01 1.871000e+01 1.914000e+01 2.007000e+01 1.664000e+01 2.204000e+01 2.109000e+01 2.209000e+01 2.376000e+01 2.158000e+01 2.177000e+01 2.152000e+01 2.267000e+01 1.084000e+01 1.671000e+01 1.888000e+01 1.854000e+01 2.064000e+01 2.000000e+01 2.200000e+01 2.139000e+01 2.137000e+01 2.178000e+01 2.179000e+01 2.123000e+01 2.201000e+01 2.150000e+01 2.150000e+01 2.199000e+01 : (instance: 0) : some description' >>> import re >>> re.findall(r"\d\.\d+e\+\d+", data) ['1.002000e+01', '2.037000e+01', '2.128000e+01', '1.908000e+01', '1.871000e+01', '1.914000e+01', '2.007000e+01', '1.664000e+01', '2.204000e+01', '2.109000e+01', '2.209000e+01', '2.376000e+01', '2.158000e+01', '2.177000e+01', '2.152000e+01', '2.267000e+01', '1.084000e+01', '1.671000e+01', '1.888000e+01', '1.854000e+01', '2.064000e+01', '2.000000e+01', '2.200000e+01', '2.139000e+01', '2.137000e+01', '2.178000e+01', '2.179000e+01', '2.123000e+01', '2.201000e+01', '2.150000e+01', '2.150000e+01', '2.199000e+01'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
