re question

[Nathan Clegg]

On 15-Oct-99 Cliff Crawford wrote:
> Pada Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:26:50 -0700, Max M. Stalnaker bilang:
>>>> str=r"blah blah blah %%%important stuff to be extracted%%%more
>>>> useless junk"
>>>> import re
>>>> group=re.search(r"%%%(.+)%%%", str)
>>>> group.groups()
> ('important stuff to be extracted',)


This MUST be a minimalistic search for this to work, or the search will
eat up everything between the *first* instance of %%% and the *last*,
ignoring all in-between.


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Nathan Clegg
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