> I would like to form a regular expression to find a few > different tokens (and, or, xor) followed by some variable > number of whitespace (i.e., tabs and spaces) followed by > a hash mark (i.e., #). What would be the regular > expression for this?
(and|or|xor)\s*# Unless "varible number of whitespace" means "at least *some* whitespace", in which case you'd want to use (and|or|xor)\s+# Both are beautiful and precise. -tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list