massi_...@msn.com wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm not really sure if this is the right place to ask about regular > expressions, but since I'm usin python I thought I could give a try :-) > Here is the problem, I'm trying to write a regex in order to substitute > all the occurences in the form $"somechars" with another string. This is > what I wrote: > > newstring = re.sub(ur"""(?u)(\$\"[\s\w]+\")""", subst, oldstring) > > This works pretty well, but it has a problem, I would need it also to > handle the case in which the internal string contains the double quotes, > but only if preceeded by a backslash, that is something like > $"somechars_with\\"doublequotes". Can anyone help me to correct it? > > Thanks in advance! Hi!
Next snippet works for me: re.sub(r'\$"([\s\w]+(\\")*[\s\w]+)+"', 'noop', r'$"te\"sts\"tri\"ng"') -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
