JZ wrote: >Dnia Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:57:21 +0100, John Abel napisał(a): > > > >>$testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##g >> >>The only way I can think of doing it, is: >> >>mailPos = testVar.find( "mail" ) >>remainder = testVar[ :mailPos ] >> >>Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm iterating over a lot of entries, >>and running these lines for each entry. >> >> > >import re >testVar = re.compile(r'/mail/.*$').sub('', testVar) > >-- >JZ > > That's brill. Never even thought if using re. Thank you!
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