Re: regular expression for parsing an html element

2007-04-20 Thread abcd
thanks, forgot that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: regular expression for parsing an html element

2007-04-20 Thread Wojciech Muła
abcd wrote: > My regex so far is: src=\"(.*)\" however the group in this case > would end up being, image/blah/a.jpg" id="d">blah blah blah a>. > > how can I tell the regex group (.*) to end when it gets to the first > " ? Use non-greedy matching, i.e. src=\"(.*?)\" (question mark af

regular expression for parsing an html element

2007-04-20 Thread abcd
I have some HTML such as blah blah blah I wnat to pull out the text that lies inside the quotes of the src attribute. So in this example I would get image/blah/a.jpg My regex so far is: src=\"(.*)\" however the group in this case would end up being, image/blah/a.jpg" id="d">bla