pat = re.compile("(\w* *)*") this matches all sentences. if fed the string "are you crazy? i am" it will return "are you crazy".
i want to find a in a big string a sentence containing Zlatan Ibrahimovic and some other text. ie return the first sentence containing the name Zlatan Ibrahimovic. patzln = re.compile("(\w* *)* zlatan ibrahimovic (\w* *)*") should do this according to regexcoach but it seems to send my computer into 100%CPU-power and not closable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list