Need help with a regular expression

Python newbie here. I am not clear about how the matching is taking place when I do the following str5 = 'aaa bbb\r\n ccc ddd\r\n eee fff' re5=re.compile('aaa.*(ddd|fff)',re.S); re5.search(str5).group(0) 'aaa bbb\r\n ccc ddd\r\n eee fff' re5.search(str5).group(1) 'fff' I am trying to find the

Re: Need help with a regular expression

Thanks Marek! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list