Jacques Grove <jacq...@tripitinc.com> added the comment: Another, with backreferences:
import re, regex text = "TEST, BEST; LEST ; Lest 123 Test, Best" regexp = "(?i)(.{1,40}?),(.{1,40}?)(?:;)+(.{1,80}).{1,40}?\\3(\ |;)+(.{1,80}?)\\1" print re.findall(regexp, text) print regex.findall(regexp, text) $ python test.py [('TEST', ' BEST', ' LEST', ' ', '123 ')] [('T', ' BEST', ' ', ' ', 'Lest 123 ')] ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2636> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com