hi people ! <newbie> i got some trouble with regular expressions i need to split a string like this on the ',' character :
mystring = ""\test1, test2\", test, 42" i wanna get something (a list) like this (3 elements) : "test1, test2" test 42 but the only thing i get is a list like this (4 elements) : "test1" "test2" test 42 each element is separated by ',' but 1st element which is delimited by '"' may contain ',' character inside. so the regular expression i need is something like : split each element using ',' delimiter but if ',' delimiter is included between '"' please do not split </newbie> 1st question is : does someone has understood the question ? 2nd question is : does someone has an answer ? thanks people scott -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list