lisong wrote: > Hi All, > > I have problem to split a string like this: > > 'abc.defg.hij.klmnop' > > and I want to get all substrings with only one '.' in mid. so the > output I expect is : > > 'abc.defg', 'defg.hij', 'hij.klmnop' > > a simple regular expression '\w+.\w' will only return: > 'abc.defg', 'hij.klmnop' > > is there a way to get 'defg.hij' using regular expression? > > Thanks, >
Do you need it to be a regular expression ? >>> def f(s) : ws = s.split('.') return map('.'.join,zip(ws,ws[1:])) >>> f('abc.defg.hij.klmnop') ['abc.defg', 'defg.hij', 'hij.klmnop'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list