[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Summercool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > so for example, it will grep for > > winter tire > tire > retire > tired > > but will not grep for > > snow tire > snow tire > some snowtires
This does not describe the problem completely. What about thisnow tire snow; tire etc? Anyway, one of the obvious modifications of (^ | \b(?!snow) \w+ ) \W* tire should work. Hope this helps, Ilya -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
