In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 26, 3:22 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try something like: > > > > re.compile(r'<table\b.*?>.*?</table>', re.DOTALL) > > So you would pick up strings like "<table><tr><td><table><tr><td>foo</ > td></tr></table>"? I doubt that is what oyster wants. I asked a question recently - nobody answered, I think because they assumed it was just a rhetorical question: (i) It's true, isn't it, that it's impossible for the formal CS notion of "regular expression" to correctly parse nested open/close delimiters? (ii) The regexes in languages like Python and Perl include features that are not part of the formal CS notion of "regular expression". Do they include something that does allow parsing nested delimiters properly? -- David C. Ullrich
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