regular expression

[Jeff Shipman]

I never gave you a very good example for my advice!
Instead of:

result = pattern.search(data)

which will match the whole line (not just the stuff in the parens),
you could use

result = pattern.sub('\g<1>', data)

and then result will equal everything that's in
(.*?) assuming your regular expression has been
written properly. (sub() is a substitution function).

Hope that helps!

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