Hi all, I've spent all morning trying to work this one out:
I've got the following string: <td>04/01/2006</td><td>Wednesday</td><td> </td><td>09:14</td><td>12:44</td><td>12:50</td><td>17:58</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>08:14</td> from which I'm attempting to extract the date, and the five times from into a list. Only the very last time is guaranteed to be there so it should also work for a line like: <td>03/01/2006</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>Annual_Holiday</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>08:00</td> My Python regular expression to match that is currently: digs = re.compile( r'<td>(\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4})</td>.*?(?:<td>(\d+\:\d+)</td>).*$' ) which first extracts the date into group 1 then matches the tags between the date and the first instance of a time into group 2 then matches the first instance of a time into group 3 but then group 4 grabs all the remaining string. I've tried changing the time pattern into (?:<td>(\d+\:\d+)</td>)+ but that doesn't seem to mean "grab one or more cases of the previous regexp." Any Python regexp gurus with a hint would be greatly appreciated. M@ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list