[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Feature Requests-516762 ] have a way to search backwards for re

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Feature Requests item #516762, was opened at 2002-02-12 22:22
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: paul rubin (phr)
>Assigned to: Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer)
Summary: have a way to search backwards for re

Initial Comment:
There doesn't seem to be any reasonable way to search
a string backwards for a regular expression, starting
from a given character position.  I notice that the
underlying C regular expression implemention supports
a direction flag.

I propose adding a direction flag to the search function
on match objects:

r = re.compile(...)
m = re.search(str, startpos=5000, endpos=-1, dir=-1)

would search in str for r, starting at
location 5000 and searching backwards through
location 0 (the beginning of the string).

This is useful in (for example) text editors where
you want to be able to search forwards or backwards,
or if you're parsing an html file and see a </table>
and want to find the matching <table>, etc.

phr


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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-03-27 15:32

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