> >>> x=re.compile(r"(?<=\bin).+\b")
Try
>>> x = re.compile("in (.*?)\b")
.*? is a non-greedy matcher I believe.
Are you using python24/tools/scripts/redemo.py? Use that to test regexes.
Regards,
Liam Clarke
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:12:32 -0800, Mike Hall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting re to stop matching after it's consumed what
> I want it to. Using this string as an example, the goal is to match
> "CAPS":
>
> >>> s = "only the word in CAPS should be matched"
>
> So let's say I want to specify when to begin my pattern by using a
> lookbehind:
>
> >>> x = re.compile(r"(?<=\bin)") #this will simply match the spot in
> front of "in"
>
> So that's straight forward, but let's say I don't want to use a
> lookahead to specify the end of my pattern, I simply want it to stop
> after it has combed over the word following "in". I would expect this
> to work, but it doesn't:
>
> >>> x=re.compile(r"(?<=\bin).+\b") #this will consume everything past
> "in" all the way to the end of the string
>
> In the above example I would think that the word boundary flag "\b"
> would indicate a stopping point. Is ".+\b" not saying, "keep matching
> characters until a word boundary has been reached"?
>
> Even stranger are the results I get from:
>
> >>> x=re.compile(r"(?<=\bin).+\s") #keep matching characters until a
> whitespace has been reached(?)
> >>> r = x.sub("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", s)
> >>> print r
> only the word [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> For some reason there it's decided to consume three words instead of
> one.
>
> My question is simply this: after specifying a start point, how do I
> make a match stop after it has found one word, and one word only? As
> always, all help is appreciated.
>
>
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