On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:55:01 +, Denis McMahon wrote:
> The code in the file at the url below processes 17 different cases. It
> may help, or it may confuse.
> http://www.sined.co.uk/tmp/strparse.py.txt
I added some more cases to it, and then realised that the code could
actually be simplifi
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:07:56 +, Jignesh Sutar wrote:
> I've kind of got this working but my code is very ugly. I'm sure it's
> regular expression I need to achieve this more but not very familiar
> with use regex, particularly retaining part of the string that is being
> searched/matched for.
On 2014-02-27 15:45, Tim Chase wrote:
> >>> r = re.compile(r"^([^:]*)(?::((?:(?!-:-).)*)(?:-:-(.*))?)?")
If you want to compare both the re method and the string method,
here's a test-harness to play with:
import re
examples = [
("", (None, None, None)),
("Test1A", ("Test1A", None, No
On 2014-02-27 20:07, Jignesh Sutar wrote:
> I've kind of got this working but my code is very ugly. I'm sure
> it's regular expression I need to achieve this more but not very
> familiar with use regex, particularly retaining part of the string
> that is being searched/matched for.
While I suppose
On 27Feb2014 20:07, Jignesh Sutar wrote:
> I've kind of got this working but my code is very ugly. I'm sure it's
> regular expression I need to achieve this more but not very familiar with
> use regex, particularly retaining part of the string that is being
> searched/matched for.
Regexps are qui
