Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I think it's time to form a Committee for the Prevention of Regular
>Expression Abuse.
As I learned from personal experience, this is a disease which one
contracts when moving to Python from Perl. Perl teaches you that the
entire world is a string, and eve
Mike Meyer wrote:
> I think it's time to form a Committee for the Prevention of Regular
> Expression Abuse.
on the other hand, the RE engine uses a more advanced scanning
algorithm than string find, which means that constant RE:s can in
fact be faster under some circumstances (certain patterns, t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I think it's time to form a Committee for the Prevention of Regular
>Expression Abuse.
'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
regular expressions." Now they have two problems.' --Jamie
Hi
thanks to all of you. Mike I like your committee idea. where can I
join? lol
Greg.
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"GregM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've looked at a lot of pages on the net and still can't seem to nail
> this. Would someone more knowledgeable in regular expressions please
> provide some help to point out what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I am trying to see if a web page contains the exact text:
> Y
GregM wrote:
> I am trying to see if a web page contains the exact text:
> You have found 0 matches
It is unclear to me why you're using a regex at all. If you want to
find the *exact* text "You have found 0 matches" perhaps you should do
something like this:
if "You have found 0 matches" in p
On 7 Oct 2005 10:35:22 -0700, GregM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've looked at a lot of pages on the net and still can't seem to nail
> this. Would someone more knowledgeable in regular expressions please
> provide some help to point out what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I am trying to see if a we
Hi,
I've looked at a lot of pages on the net and still can't seem to nail
this. Would someone more knowledgeable in regular expressions please
provide some help to point out what I'm doing wrong?
I am trying to see if a web page contains the exact text:
You have found 0 matches
But instead I see
