On 2008-08-17, Alexnb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wroted: > string = "yes text1 yes text2 yes text3 no text4 yes text5+more Text yes > text6 no text7 yes text8" > > It doesn't matter what is in the string, I want to be able to know exactly > how many "yes"'s there are.
----- cut here ----- >>> import re >>> foo = "yes text1 yes text2 yes text3 no text4 yes text5+more Text yes >>> text6 no text7 yes text8" >>> results = re.findall("yes", foo) >>> len(results) 6 >>> results ['yes', 'yes', 'yes', 'yes', 'yes', 'yes'] ----- cut here ----- > I also want to know what is after each, regardless of length. So, I want to > be able to get "text1", but not "text4" because it is after "no" and I want > all of "text5+more Text" because it is after "yes". It is like the yeses are > bullet points and I want all the info after them. However, all in one > string. I guess this can be done with regular expressions: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-re.html Read about groups, then write an appropriate regex. GS -- Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak _at_ wp [dot] pl> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list