Dan Lowe wrote: > >On Jul 22, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Jason L wrote: > >> I don't know much about regex but in my subjects I need to match say >> >> BLAHBLAHBLAH and anything after it I tried BLAHBLAHBLAH* but it >> doesn't seem to work. > >"*" means "match 0 or more of the previous item". So in this case, >you are asking to match "BLAHBLAHBLA" followed by 0 or more of "H", e.g. > >BLAHBLAHBLA >BLAHBLAHBLAH >BLAHBLAHBLAHHHHHHHHH > >You probably want to try: BLAHBLAHBLAH.* > >"." means "anything", so ".*" means "0 or more of anything".
Correct. Don't confuse regexps with globbing. They aren't the same thing. For Python regexps, see <http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html>. However, the 'regexp' you used should match, if anything, more than what you want (i.e., it doesn't require the last character of BLAHBLAHBLAH), so I suspect there is something else wrong. If you could explain exactly what you're doing and what you're trying to accomplish, perhaps we can figure out what that is. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
