On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:35:57 -0700, Robert Dailey 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 #,#,#,# > > The # symbol represents any number that can be any length 1 or > greater. Example: > > FILEVERSION 1,45,10082,3 > > The regex should only match the exact above. So far here's what I have > come up with: > > re.compile( r'FILEVERSION (?:[0-9]+\,){3}[0-9]+' )
[0-9]+ allows any number of leading zeros, which is sometimes undesirable. Using: (0|[1-9][0-9]*) is more robust. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list