Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Although I generally advise against overuse of regular expressions, this is >one situation where regular expressions might be useful: [ ... ] >>>> nobr = re.compile('\W*<br.*?>\W*', re.I)
Agreed (on both counts), but r'\s*<br.*?>\s*' might be better (consider what happens with "an unfortunate... <br> in the middle" if you use \W rather than \s). -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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