regex help for a newbie

[marco]

Marco Herrn <herrn at gmx.net> writes:

> I have the following string in my program:
> 
>   string= "aaa%(BBB%(CCC)BBB)aaa%(DDD)aaa"

[snip]

> the parts in a recursive function. So the thing I want to achieve here
> is to extract %(BBB%(CCC)BBB) and %(DDD).

p1, p2 = "aaa%(BBB%(CCC)BBB)aaa%(DDD)aaa".split("aaa")[1:-1]

Cheers,

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