[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks to all for the various good approaches. Kent's plain RE approach > seems the most straightforward - did not know that RE can handle this > situation - good to know!
Thanks to Eddie Corns also who showed how to express the problem as a parsing problem. I am also trying a pyparsing solution but I don't see a way to repeat a previous element in pyparsing. Paul McGuire, are you listening? Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list