file/re search and sub problem

[Darrell Gallion]

Here's two solutions.

>>> s='11ebitda</td>'
>>> re.sub('(?i)[^A-Z]ebitda[^A-Z]','EBITDA', s)
'1EBITDA/td>'
>>> re.sub('(?i)(?![^A-Z])ebitda(?=[^A-Z])','EBITDA', s)
'11EBITDA</td>'
>>> re.sub('(?i)([^A-Z])ebitda([^A-Z])','\g<1>EBITDA\g<2>', s)
'11EBITDA</td>'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tiddlerdeja at my-deja.com>
> 
> I have a re:
> wilf_re        = re.compile('[^A-Z]ebitda[^A-Z]', re.IGNORECASE)
> 
> And I do a search and replace
> if wilf_re.search(file):
> 
>      # perform the substitution
>      new_file = wilf_re.sub(" EBITDA", file)
> 
> This isn't really what I want. If I have
>  ebitda</td>
> It replaces it with
>  EBITDA/td>
> 
> 
> Can someone tell me how I go about getting:
>  EBITDA</td>