John Salerno wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi > > > > if i have a some lines like this > > a ) "here is first string" > > b ) "here is string2" > > c ) "here is string3" > > > > When i specify i only want to print the lines that contains "string" ie > > the first line and not the others. If i use re module, how to compile > > the expression to do this? I tried the re module and using simple > > search() and everytime it gives me all the 3 lines that have "string" > > in it, whereas i only need line 1. > > If re module is not needed, how can i use string manipulation to do > > this? thanks > > > > As far as re goes, you can search for the pattern '\bstring\b', which > will find just the word 'string' itself. Not sure if there's a better > way to do it with REs. > > And I'm actually ashamed to admit that I know the RE way, but not the > regular string manipulation way, if there is one! This seems like > something easy enough to do without REs though.
just curious , if RE has the \b and it works, can we look into the source of re and see how its done for \b ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
