help with regex matching multiple %e

[Matt Funk]

Thanks,
works great.

matt

On 3/3/2011 10:53 AM, MRAB wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 17:33, mafunk at nmsu.edu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have a line that looks something like:
>> 2.234e+04 3.456e+02 7.234e+07 1.543e+04: some description
>>
>> I would like to extract all the numbers. From the python website i
>> got the
>> following expression for matching what in c is %e (i.e. scientific
>> format):
>> (see http://docs.python.org/library/re.html)
>> [-+]?(\d+(\.\d*)?|\.\d+)([eE][-+]?\d+)?
>> And when i apply the pattern (using extra parenthesis around the whole
>> expression) it does match the first number in the line.
>>
>> Is there any way to repeat this pattern to get me all the numbers in the
>> line?
>> I though the following might work, but i doesn't:
>> ([-+]?(\d+(\.\d*)?|\.\d+)([eE][-+]?\d+)?){numToRepeat)
>>
> You're forgetting that the numbers are separated by a space.
>
>> Or will i have to split the line first, then iterate and the apply
>> the match?
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
> Use re.findall to find all the matches.