regex: multiple matching for one string

[Nick Dumas]

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Agreed. Two string.split()s, first at the semi-colon and then at the
equal sign, will yield you your value, without having to fool around
with regexes.

On 7/23/2009 9:23 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> scriptlearner at gmail.com wrote:
>> For example, I have a string "#a=valuea;b=valueb;c=valuec;", and I
>> will like to take out the values (valuea, valueb, and valuec).  How do
>> I do that in Python?  The group method will only return the matched
>> part.  Thanks.
>>
>> p = re.compile('#a=*;b=*;c=*;')
>> m = p.match(line)
>>         if m:
>>              print m.group(),
> 
> IMHO a regex for this is overkill, a combination of string methods such
> as split and find should suffice.
> 
> Regards.
> 
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