Brian McCann wrote: > Shawn, Tim ,Jay > > many thanks, > > It looks like there are many ways this problem can be approached > > either by using regex or a tokens > > Tim I'm not familiar with your solution, but will learn about that > method also > Jay, what do you mean by regex comes with a lot of overhead? > --Brian
Regular expression parsing can have a lot of overhead, i.e. processing power/memory usage so it's recommended that they only be used when actually needed. If you only have to search for a very specific set of text or manipulate text that is very rigidly, then there's little benefit to including regular expressions. By comparison, if you have a need to match a lot of various cases or conditions, a regular expression can be by far the more efficient or logical method to use. -Jay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
