On 03/16/2005-12:12PM, Mike Hall 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" >
jet% python Python 2.4 (#2, Jan 5 2005, 15:59:52) [GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> s = "only the word in CAPS should be matched" >>> x=re.compile(r"\bin ([^\s]+)") >>> x.findall(s) ['CAPS'] >>> _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor