I was trying something like this digits = re.compile("\d") if digits in line instr_number = digits.search(line)
because it looked realy cool when I saw it in a recent post... and then the same thing for just (';') didn't seem to return anything except one line and some hex that came from god knows where./... I will see what the other does and post the result.. hanumizzle wrote: > 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