Newbie needs help with regex strings

[Christopher Subich]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> This isn't a regex solution, but uses pyparsing instead.  Pyparsing
> helps you construct recursive-descent parsers, and maintains a code
> structure that is easy to compose, read, understand, maintain, and
> remember what you did 6-months after you wrote it in the first place.
> 
> Download pyparsing at http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net.


For the example listed, pyparsing is even overkill; the OP should 
probably use the csv module.