On 19 août, 19:33, Matt Funk <matze...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The results obtained are:
> results:
> [(' 2.199000e+01', ' : (instance: 0)\t:\tsome description')]
> so this matches the last number plus the string at the end of the line, but no
> retaining the previous numbers.
>
> Anyway, i think at this point i will go another route. Not sure where the
> issues lies at this point.
>Seen on this list: And always keep this in mind: 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.' --Jamie Zawinski, comp.lang.emacs I proposed a solution which seems to corresponds to your problem if it were better formulated... jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
