Quinn Dunkan wrote: > Occaisionally I find myself wanting an re.search that will find the rightmost > match. just prepend ".*" to the pattern... > Unfortunately, AFAIK, re.search also lacks a 'start_searching_at' > type option. if you use a compiled pattern, you can pass in start and end offsets: p = re.compile(pattern) p.search(string, start, end) </F>