Re: trying to find repeated substrings with regular expression

2006-03-14 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Robert Dodier] > I'm trying to find substrings that look like 'FOO blah blah blah' > in a string. For example give 'blah FOO blah1a blah1b FOO blah2 > FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b' I want to get three substrings, > 'FOO blah1a blah1b', 'FOO blah2', and 'FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b'. No need for regular

Re: trying to find repeated substrings with regular expression

2006-03-13 Thread johnzenger
Robert Dodier wrote: > I've decided it's easier for me just to search for FOO, and then > break up the string based on the locations of FOO. > > But I'd like to better understand regular expressions. Those who cannot learn regular expressions are doomed to repeat string searches. Which is not su

Re: trying to find repeated substrings with regular expression

2006-03-13 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Robert Dodier wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to find substrings that look like 'FOO blah blah blah' > in a string. For example give 'blah FOO blah1a blah1b FOO blah2 > FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b' I want to get three substrings, > 'FOO blah1a blah1b', 'FOO blah2', and 'FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b'.

Re: trying to find repeated substrings with regular expression

2006-03-13 Thread Kent Johnson
Robert Dodier wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to find substrings that look like 'FOO blah blah blah' > in a string. For example give 'blah FOO blah1a blah1b FOO blah2 > FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b' I want to get three substrings, > 'FOO blah1a blah1b', 'FOO blah2', and 'FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b'.

trying to find repeated substrings with regular expression

2006-03-13 Thread Robert Dodier
Hello all, I'm trying to find substrings that look like 'FOO blah blah blah' in a string. For example give 'blah FOO blah1a blah1b FOO blah2 FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b' I want to get three substrings, 'FOO blah1a blah1b', 'FOO blah2', and 'FOO blah3a blah3b blah3b'. I've tried numerous variations o