Regular expression help
Andrew Bennetts
andrew-pythonlist at puzzling.org
Fri Jul 18 01:07:40 EDT 2003
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:31:32AM +0000, David Lees wrote:
> Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> >
> >How about re.findall?
[...]
> Actually this fails with the multi-line type of file I was asking about.
>
> >>> re.findall('BEGIN(.*?)END', 'BEGIN foo\nmumble END BEGIN bar END')
> [' bar ']
Oh! So it does. I presumed it took an optional flags argument, like
re.search, but it doesn't. Compiling the pattern with re.M doesn't seem to
help (and I can't figure out how to include the flag inline -- "(?M)"
doesn't seem to work).
On the other hand, this hack does work:
>>> re.findall('BEGIN((?:.|\\n)*?)END', 'BEGIN foo\nmumble END BEGIN bar END')
[' foo\nmumble ', ' bar ']
(There's probably a more elegant way to do that, but I'm not a re expert)
-Andrew.
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