Extracting parts of string between anchor points

[Denis McMahon]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:55:01 +0000, Denis McMahon wrote:

> The code in the file at the url below processes 17 different cases. It
> may help, or it may confuse.

> http://www.sined.co.uk/tmp/strparse.py.txt

I added some more cases to it, and then realised that the code could 
actually be simplified quite a lot. So now it has been.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com