matching patterns after regex?

[Mark Lawrence]

Bernard wrote:
> On 12 août, 12:43, Martin <mdeka... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 12, 1:42 pm, Martin <mdeka... at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 12, 1:23 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
>>> cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:12:22 -0700, Martin wrote:
>>>>> I tried
>>>>> re.findall((\w+COORDINATE).*\s+VALUE\s+=\s([\d\.\w-]+),s)
>>>> You need to put quotes around strings.
>>>> In this case, because you're using regular expressions, you should use a
>>>> raw string:
>>>> re.findall(r"(\w+COORDINATE).*\s+VALUE\s+=\s([\d\.\w-]+)",s)
>>>> will probably work.
>>>> --
>>>> Steven
>>> Thanks I see.
>>> so I tried it and if I use it as it is, it matches the first instance:
>>> I
>>> n [594]: re.findall(r"(\w+COORDINATE).*\s+VALUE\s+=\s([\d\.\w-]+)",s)
>>> Out[594]: [('NORTHBOUNDINGCOORDINATE', '1')]
>>> So I adjusted the first part of the regex, on the basis I could sub
>>> NORTH for SOUTH etc.
>>> In [595]: re.findall(r"(NORTHBOUNDINGCOORDINATE).*\s+VALUE\s+=\s([\d\.
>>> \w-]+)",s)
>>> Out[595]: [('NORTHBOUNDINGCOORDINATE', '1')]
>>> But in both cases it doesn't return the decimal value rather the value
>>> that comes after NUM_VAL = , rather than VALUE = ?
>> I think I kind of got that to work...but I am clearly not quite
>> understanding how it works as I tried to use it again to match
>> something else.
>>
>> In this case I want to print the values 0.000000 and 2223901.039333
>> from a string like this...
>>
>> YDim=1200\n\t\tUpperLeftPointMtrs=(0.000000,2223901.039333)\n\t\t
>>
>> I tried which I though was matching the statement and printing the
>> decimal number after the equals sign??
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>> re.findall(r"(\w+UpperLeftPointMtrs)*=\s([\d\.\w-]+)", s)
>>
>> where s is the string
>>
>> Many thanks for the help
> 
> You have to do it with 2 matches in the same regex:
> 
> regex = r"UpperLeftPointMtrs=\(([\d\.]+),([\d\.]+)"
> 
> The first match  is before the , and the second one is after the , :)
> 
> You should probably learn how to play with regexes.
> I personnaly use a visual tool called RX Toolkit[1] that comes with
> Komodo IDE.
> 
> [1] http://docs.activestate.com/komodo/4.4/regex.html
Haven't tried it myself but how about this?
http://re-try.appspot.com/

-- 
Kindest regards.

Mark Lawrence.