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
