How to write Regular Expression for recursive matching?

[Paul McGuire]

On Nov 26, 10:51 am, Paul McGuire <pt... at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> On Nov 26, 10:40 am, lisong <lisong.1... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi All,
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> > I have problem to split a string like this:
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> > 'abc.defg.hij.klmnop'
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> > and I want to get all substrings with only one '.' in mid. so the
> > output I expect is :
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> > 'abc.defg', 'defg.hij', 'hij.klmnop'
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> > a simple regular expression '\w+.\w' will only return:
> > 'abc.defg', 'hij.klmnop'
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> > is there a way to get 'defg.hij' using regular expression?
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> > Thanks,
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> Why are you using regular expressions?  Use the split method defined
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> >>> 'abc.defg.hij.klmnop'.split('.')
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> ['abc', 'defg', 'hij', 'klmnop']
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Sorry, misread your post - Diez Roggisch has the right answer.

-- Paul