Robert Dodier wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to find substrings that look like 'FOO blah blah blah' > in a string. For example give 'blah FOO blah1a blah1b FOO blah2 > FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b' I want to get three substrings, > 'FOO blah1a blah1b', 'FOO blah2', and 'FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b'. > > I've tried numerous variations on '.*(FOO((?!FOO).)*)+.*' > and everything I've tried either matches too much or too little.
FOO(.*?)(?=FOO|$) > I've decided it's easier for me just to search for FOO, and then > break up the string based on the locations of FOO. Use re.split() for this. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
