Christoph Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Roger, > > > since the length of the first sequence of the letter 'a' is 2. Yours > > accepts it, right? > > Yes, i misunderstood your requirements. So it must be modified > essentially to that what Tim Chase wrote: > > m = re.search('^[^a]*a{3}b', 'xyz123aabbaaab')
...but that rejects 'aazaaab' which should apparently be accepted. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list