I hope posting is ok here for this question... I am attempting to extract the text from a CSS comment using 're' such as...
string = "/* CSS comment /*" exp = "[^(/*)].*[^(*/)] " p = re.compile(exp) q = p.search(string) r = q.group() print r >>CSS comment although this works to a degree... I know the within the brackets everything is taken literally so the pattern I am to negating is "(/*)". ie. includes the parenthesis. So my question is... Is there a way to negate a pattern that is more than on character long? eg. where rather than saying if forward slash OR astrisk appear..negate. I would be saying if parenthesis AND asterisk appear in this order... negate -- Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list