On Mar 16, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Kent Johnson wrote:
"in (.*?)\b" will match against "in " because you use .* which will
match an empty string. Try "in (.+?)\b" (or "(?<=\bin)..+?\b" )to
require one character after the space.
Another working example, excellent. I'm not too clear on why the back
to back ".." in "(?<=\bin)..+?\b" )" makes the regex work, but it does.
You can't import it, you have to run it from the command line. I don't
know if it is installed under Mac OSX though. You might be interested
in RegexPlor:
http://python.net/~gherman/RegexPlor.html
RegexPlor looks fantastic, will be downloading. Thanks.
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