George Sakkis wrote:
> If you don't want any null strings at the beginning or the end, an
> equivalent regexp is:
>
>>>> whitespaceSplitter_2 = re.compile("\w+|\s+")
>>>> whitespaceSplitter_2.findall("1 2 3 \t\n5")
> ['1', ' ', '2', ' ', '3', ' \t\n', '5']
>>>> whitespaceSplitter_2.findall(" 1 2 3 \t\n5 ")
> [' ', '1', ' ', '2', ' ', '3', ' \t\n', '5', ' ']
Perhaps you may want to use "\s+|\S+" if you have non-alphanumeric
characters in the string.
Reinhold
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