On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:09:46 -0000, Marc <m...@marcd.org> wrote:
Hi,
I am having an issue with something that would seem to have an easy
solution, but which escapes me. I have configuration files that I would
like to parse. The data I am having issue with is a multi-line attribute
that has the following structure:
banner <option> <banner text delimiter>
Banner text
Banner text
Banner text
...
<banner text delimiter>
The regex 'banner\s+(\w+)\s+(.+)' captures the command nicely and
banner.group(2) captures the delimiter nicely.
My issue is that I need to capture the lines between the delimiters (both
delimiters are the same).
I really, really wouldn't do this with a single regexp. You'll get a much
easier to understand program if you implement a small state machine
instead. In rough pseudocode:
collecting_banner = False
for line in configuration_file:
if not collecting_banner:
if found banner start:
get delimiter
collecting_banner = True
banner_lines = []
elif found other stuff:
do other stuff
elif found delimiter:
collecting_banner = False
else:
banner_lines.append(line)
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