Extracting repeated words

candide candide at free.invalid
Fri Apr 1 16:54:53 EDT 2011


Another question relative to regular expressions.

How to extract all word duplicates in a given text by use of regular 
expression methods ?  To make the question concrete, if the text is

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Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
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duplicates are :

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better is now than never
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Some code can solve the question, for instance

# ------------------
import re

regexp=r"\w+"

c=re.compile(regexp, re.IGNORECASE)

text="""
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now."""

z=[s.lower() for s in c.findall(text)]

for d in set([s for s in z if z.count(s)>1]):
     print d,
# ------------------

but I'm in search of "plain" re code.






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