I'd consider taking a look at the re module ;) Andreas
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:57:21PM +0100, John Abel wrote: > Does anyone know of a quick way of performing this: > > $testVar =~ s#/mail/.*$##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. > > J > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list