Hi blair.bethwaite > I want a tool that can enumerate a regex, > with support for generating each string > described by the regex in some predefined order.
If you run the regex against some target string, this is gonna be easy (but maybe not what you want). If you have the string 'Python' and run a regex pattern \w+(greedy!) against it, the result should read: match:Python match:Pytho match:Pyth match:Pyt match:Py match:P match:.ython match:.ytho match:.yth match:.yt match:.y match:..thon match:..tho match:..th match:..t match:...hon match:...ho match:...h match:....on match:....o match:.....n These are then your strings resulting from "\w+" This can be extracted by implanting code into the regex, it generates the strings for you then. I dont exaclty how to do this in Python, but in the 'Gem-Liar' you would do a simple: $re = qr/ \w+ ## <-- insert your regex code here (?{print "match:",'.'x$-[0],$&,"\n"}) (?!) ## this prints it /x; $_ = "Python!"; ## against which string 1 while /$re/g; ## print them out This should somehow work in Python too, but my skills aren't up to the task ;-) Regards M. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list