On Aug 7, 1:35 am, Robert Dailey <rcdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm creating a python script that is going to try to search a text > file for any text that matches my regular expression. The thing it is > looking for is: > > FILEVERSION 1,45,10082,3
Would it be easier to do it without regex? The following is untested but I would probably do it more like this: TOKEN = 'FILEVERSION ' for line in file: if line.startswith(TOKEN): version = line[len(TOKEN):] maj, min, rev, other = version.split(',') break # if there's only one occurance, otherwise do stuff here -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list