reusing parts of a string in RE matches?
John Salerno
johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Wed May 10 11:56:28 EDT 2006
Bo Yang wrote:
>> This matches all the 'ab' followed by an 'a', but it doesn't include
>> the 'a'. What I'd like to do is find all the 'aba' matches. A regular
>> findall() gives four results, but really there are seven.
>>
>>
> I try the code , but I give seven results !
Sorry, I meant that findall() only returns 4 results when searching for
'aba', when there are actually seven instances of 'aba'. This doesn't
involve the look-ahead RE.
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