> There's really not a single good re tutorial or documentation >I could found!
With * being a greedy operator, your post's subject line matches, "firetrucking" which, of course, has nothing to do with regular expressions, or python.org's re how-to guide, or Amazon's 18 books on the subject, or the hundreds of available on-line tutorials. http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-9115182-7050550 http://www.google.com/search?q=regular+expression+tutorial Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list