IIRC, Python's only non-regular feature is backreferences though
Probably. I'm not too familiar with a couple other features or how
their semantics work, in particular the (?(id)yes|no) syntax.
I'm not calling bs or anything, I don't know anything about .net
regexes and I'll readily believe
Parsing XML with regular expressions is generally very bad idea. In
the general case, it's actually impossible. XML is not what is called
a regular language, and therefore cannot be parsed with regular
expressions. You can use regular expressions to grab a limited amount
of data from a
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:19 AM, Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierr...@gmail.com wrote:
Parsing XML with regular expressions is generally very bad idea. In
the general case, it's actually impossible. XML is not what is called
a regular language, and therefore cannot be parsed with regular
expressions.
Hello all,
I have a file with xml-ish code in it, the definitions for units in a
real-time strategy game. I say xml-ish because the tags are like xml,
but no quotes are used and most tags do not have to end. Also,
comments in this file are prefaced by an apostrophe, and there is no
multi-line
If it's unambiguous as to which tags are closed and which are not, then it's
pretty easy to preprocess the file into valid XML. Scan for the naughty bits
(single quotes) and insert escape characters, replace with something else,
etc., then scan for the unterminated tags and throw in a / at
I had planned to parse myself, but am not sure how to go about it. I
assume regular expressions, but I couldn't even find the amount of
units in the file by using:
unitReg=re.compile(r\unit\(*)\/unit\)
unitCount=unitReg.search(fileContents)
print number of units: +unitCount.len(groups())
I just
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
I had planned to parse myself, but am not sure how to go about it. I
assume regular expressions, but I couldn't even find the amount of
units in the file by using:
unitReg=re.compile(r\unit\(*)\/unit\)
On 01/08/2012 04:53 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
Hello all,
I have a file with xml-ish code in it, the definitions for units in a
real-time strategy game. I say xml-ish because the tags are like xml,
but no quotes are used and most tags do not have to end. Also,
comments in this file are prefaced by an
