Thanks all for your responses, especially Paul McGuire for the
excellent example usage of pyparsing.
I'm off to check out pyparsing.
Thanks,
Chris
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On Aug 10, 7:56 am, Paul Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2:30 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to use regular expressions to help me quickly extract the
> > contents of messages that my application will receive.
>
> Don't use regexps for parsing complex data; they're lim
if its *NOT* an exercise in re, and if input is a bunch of lines within '{'
and '}' and each line is key="value" pairs, I would not go near re. instead
simply parse keys and array of values into a dictionary, and process them from
the dictionary as below, and the key option correctly has 2 entr
On Aug 10, 2:30 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to use regular expressions to help me quickly extract the
> contents of messages that my application will receive.
Don't use regexps for parsing complex data; they're limited,
completely unreadable, and hugely difficult to debug. Your code
