<applause> Very nice sir. I'm interested in what you're doing here with
the caret metacharacter. For one thing, why enclose it and the
whitespace flag within a character class? Does this not traditionally
mean you want to strip a metacharacter of it's special meaning?
On Mar 16, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Christopher Weimann wrote:
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']
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