504cr...@gmail.com wrote:
> No -- sorry -- I don't want to use BeautifulSoup (though I have for
> other projects). Humor me, please -- I'd really like to see if this
> can be done with just regular expressions.
I think the reason why people are giving funny comments here is that you
failed to prov
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:10:55 -0700, 504cr...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm kind of new to regular expressions
The most important thing to learn about regular expressions is to learn
what they can do, what they can't do, and what they can do in theory but
can't do in practice (usually because of exponent
On Oct 2, 11:14 pm, greg wrote:
> Brian D wrote:
> > This isn't merely a question of knowing when to use the right
> > tool. It's a question about how to become a better developer using
> > regular expressions.
>
> It could be said that if you want to learn how to use a
> hammer, it's better to pr
Brian D wrote:
This isn't merely a question of knowing when to use the right
tool. It's a question about how to become a better developer using
regular expressions.
It could be said that if you want to learn how to use a
hammer, it's better to practise on nails rather than
screws.
--
Greg
--
Screw:
>>> html = """
14313
Python
Hammer Institute #2
Jefferson
70114
8583
New
Screwdriver Technical Academy, Inc #4
Jefferson
70114
9371
Career
RegEx Center
Jefferson
The other thought I had was that I may not be properly trapping the
end of the first row, and the beginning of the next row.
On Oct 2, 8:38 am, John wrote:
> On Oct 2, 1:10 am, "504cr...@gmail.com" <504cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm kind of new to regular expressions, and I've spent hou
Yes, John, that's correct. I'm trying to trap and discard the row
elements, re-formatting with pipes so that I can more readily
import the data into a database. The tags are, of course, initially
useful for pattern discovery. But there are other approaches -- I
could just replace the tags and cap
On Oct 2, 1:10 am, "504cr...@gmail.com" <504cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm kind of new to regular expressions, and I've spent hours trying to
> finesse a regular expression to build a substitution.
>
> What I'd like to do is extract data elements from HTML and structure
> them so that they can more
Paul McGuire wrote:
> On Oct 2, 12:10 am, "504cr...@gmail.com" <504cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm kind of new to regular expressions, and I've spent hours trying to
>> finesse a regular expression to build a substitution.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is extract data elements from HTML and structure
>>
On Oct 2, 12:10 am, "504cr...@gmail.com" <504cr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm kind of new to regular expressions, and I've spent hours trying to
> finesse a regular expression to build a substitution.
>
> What I'd like to do is extract data elements from HTML and structure
> them so that they can more
504cr...@gmail.com a écrit :
I'm kind of new to regular expressions, and I've spent hours trying to
finesse a regular expression to build a substitution.
What I'd like to do is extract data elements from HTML and structure
them so that they can more readily be imported into a database.
No -- so
I'm kind of new to regular expressions, and I've spent hours trying to
finesse a regular expression to build a substitution.
What I'd like to do is extract data elements from HTML and structure
them so that they can more readily be imported into a database.
No -- sorry -- I don't want to use Beau
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