re beginner

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Machin wrote:

> Fantastic -- at least for the OP's carefully copied-and-pasted input.
> Meanwhile back in the real world, there might be problems with multiple 
> tabs used for 'prettiness' instead of 1 tab, non-integer values, etc etc.

yeah, that's probably why the OP stated "which always has the same format".

and the "trying to understand regex for the first time, and it would be 
very helpful to get an example" part was obviously mostly irrelevant to 
the "smarter than thou" crowd; only one thread contributor was silly 
enough to actually provide an RE-based example.

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