Regular Expression Syntax Help

Ernesto erniedude at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 15:52:21 EST 2006


So now I need to add the requirement that only "Name:" 's which are
followed by

"Request: Play" or "Request: Next" ANYWHERE between the previous titles
and the new titles.  Can I use RE's for that ?


Ernesto wrote:
> I'm trying to get the right syntax for my regular expression.  The
> string I'm trying to parse is:
>
> # myString
> [USELESS DATA]
> Name:  David Dude
> [USELESS DATA]
>
> Right now, I'm using the following code:
>
>
> pattern_Name= '''(?x)
>     Title:\s+(\w+)\s+
> '''
> names = re.findall(pattern_Name, myString)
> print names
>
> This prints out a list containing only the first names.  I want to
> search the string until it finds a '\n' endline, but I experimented
> with that, and couldn't find what I need.




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