On 10/7/06, goyatlah <goyatlah> wrote: > Think you need a regex like this: regex = > r"\s*instr\s+([0-9]+)\s*(;.*)?"
[0-9] maybe written simply as \d (d for digit) > Then: > import re > test = re.compile(regex) Regexes are usually passed as literals directly to re.compile(). > testing is done as follows: > res = test.match(mystring) Initial \s* is redundant if you use the search() method. > if res: I forgot that part. :) > number = res.group(1) # always a string consisting of decimals > comment = res.group(2) # string starting with ; or None > it might be necessary to have the instr part of the regex as follows > [iI][nN][sS][tT][rR] to handle things like Instr or INSTR. It is sufficient to use the re.IGNORECASE flag. -- Theerasak -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
