Re: problem with regex, how to conclude more than one character

2008-11-07 Thread tecspring
On Nov 7, 3:13 pm, Chris Rebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:06 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always have no idea about how to express conclude the entire word with regexp,  while using python, I encountered this problem again... for example, if I want to match the

problem with regex, how to conclude more than one character

2008-11-06 Thread tecspring
I always have no idea about how to express conclude the entire word with regexp, while using python, I encountered this problem again... for example, if I want to match the string in test a string, re.findall(r[^a]* (\w+),test a string) will work, but what if there is not a but an(test a

Re: problem with regex, how to conclude more than one character

2008-11-06 Thread tecspring
On Nov 7, 3:06 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always have no idea about how to express conclude the entire word with regexp,  while using python, I encountered this problem again... for example, if I want to match the string in test a string, re.findall(r[^a]* (\w+),test a string) will work,

Re: problem with regex, how to conclude more than one character

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always have no idea about how to express conclude the entire word with regexp, while using python, I encountered this problem again... for example, if I want to match the string in test a string, re.findall(r[^a]* (\w+),test a

Re: problem with regex, how to conclude more than one character

2008-11-06 Thread Charles Yan
Really thanks for quickly reply Chris! Actually I tried BeautifulSoup and it's great. But I'm not very familiar with it and it need more codes to parse the html and get the right text. I think regexp is more convenient if there is a way to filter out the list just in one line:) I did this all the