Regex Question

[Frank Koshti]

On Aug 18, 11:48 am, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> Frank Koshti wrote:
> > I need to match, process and replace $foo(x=3), knowing that (x=3) is
> > optional, and the token might appear simply as $foo.
>
> > To do this, I decided to use:
>
> > re.compile('\$\w*\(?.*?\)').findall(mystring)
>
> > the issue with this is it doesn't match $foo by itself, and requires
> > there to be () at the end.
> >>> s = """
>
> ... <h1>$foo1</h1>
> ... <p>$foo2()</p>
> ... <p>$foo3(anything could go here)</p>
> ... """>>> re.compile("(\$\w+(?:\(.*?\))?)").findall(s)
>
> ['$foo1', '$foo2()', '$foo3(anything could go here)']

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