simple regular expression problem

Hello, I am trying to extract a list of strings from a text. I am looking it for hours now, googling didn't help either. Could you please help me? s = \norganisatie\nProfiel_Id28996/Profiel_Id\n/organisatie\norganisatie\nProfiel_Id28997/Profiel_Id\n/organisatie regex =

Re: simple regular expression problem

You just need a one-character addition to your regex: regex = re.compile(r'organisatie.*?/organisatie', re.S) Note, there is now a question mark (?) after the .* By default, regular expressions are greedy and will grab as much text as possible when making a match. So your original expression

Re: simple regular expression problem

Thank you very much, it works. I guess I didn't read it right. Arjen On Sep 17, 3:22 pm, Jason Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just need a one-character addition to your regex: regex = re.compile(r'organisatie.*?/organisatie', re.S) Note, there is now a question mark (?) after the .* By

Re: simple regular expression problem

On Sep 17, 9:00 am, duikboot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to extract a list of strings from a text. I am looking it for hours now, googling didn't help either. Could you please help me? s =

Re: simple regular expression problem

You're welcome! Also, of course, parsing XML is a very common task and you might be interested in using one of the standard modules for that, e.g. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.parsers.expat.html Then all the tricky parsing work has been done for you. Jason On Sep 17, 9:31 am,

Re: simple regular expression problem

duikboot a écrit : Hello, I am trying to extract a list of strings from a text. I am looking it for hours now, googling didn't help either. Could you please help me? s = \norganisatie\nProfiel_Id28996/Profiel_Id\n/organisatie\norganisatie\nProfiel_Id28997/Profiel_Id\n/organisatie

Re: simple regular expression problem

duikboot wrote: Hello, I am trying to extract a list of strings from a text. I am looking it for hours now, googling didn't help either. Could you please help me? s = \norganisatie\nProfiel_Id28996/Profiel_Id\n/organisatie\norganisatie\nProfiel_Id28997/Profiel_Id\n/organisatie regex =

Re: simple regular expression problem

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], duikboot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to extract a list of strings from a text. I am looking it for hours now, googling didn't help either. To emphasize the other answers you got about avoiding regexps, here's a nice quote from my .sig database: 'Some