I'm guessing that the name "FUDD, ELMER" varies. In that case, you might try something like this:
>>> id_num_regex = re.compile(r'\d+(?=\w+\b,.+?)') >>> id_num_regex.findall(t) ['624309'] This would account for first names such as 'Mary Ann' and also automatically matches characters only to the end of the line, since you have not flagged re.DOTALL. Justin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
