Brandon Harris wrote: > I'm trying to read in and parse an ascii type file that contains > information that can span several lines. > Example:
What about something like this (you need re.MULTILINE): In [16]: re.findall('^([^ ].*\n([ ].*\n)+)', a, re.MULTILINE) Out[16]: [('createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_globalSmooth";\n setAttr ".tan" 9;\n setAttr -s 4 ".ktv[0:3]" 101 0 163 0 169 0 201 0;\n setAttr -s 4 ".kit[3]" 10;\n setAttr -s 4 ".kot[3]" 10;\n', ' setAttr -s 4 ".kot[3]" 10;\n'), ('createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_res";\n setAttr ".tan" 9;\n setAttr ".ktv[0]" 103 0;\n setAttr ".kot[0]" 5;\n', ' setAttr ".kot[0]" 5;\n'), ('createNode animCurveTU -n "test:master_faceRig";\n setAttr ".tan" 9;\n setAttr ".ktv[0]" 103 0;\n', ' setAttr ".ktv[0]" 103 0;\n')] If you blocks start without a space and subsequent lines with a space. Jeremy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list