simple regular expression problem

[Aahz]

In article <1190034041.796626.66790 at n39g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
duikboot  <dijkstra.arjen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I am trying to extract a list of strings from a text. I am looking it
>for hours now, googling didn't help either.

To emphasize the other answers you got about avoiding regexps, here's a
nice quote from my .sig database:

'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
regular expressions."  Now they have two problems.'  --Jamie Zawinski
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