[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > hi > > i have a string : > a = > "this\nis\na\nsentence[startdelim]this\nis\nanother[enddelim]this\nis\n" > > inside the string, there are "\n". I don't want to substitute the '\n' > in between > the [startdelim] and [enddelim] to ''. I only want to get rid of the > '\n' everywhere else.
Well, I'm not an expert on re's - I've only been using them for three decades - but I'm not sure this can be done with a single re, as the pattern you're interested in depends on context, and re's don't handle that well. On the -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
