On 19 Gru, 13:08, Sharun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to find the substring starting with 'aaa', and ending with > ddd OR fff. If ddd is found shouldnt the search stop? Shouldn't > re5.search(str5).group(0) return 'aaa bbb\r\n ccc ddd' ?
The documentation for the re module (http://docs.python.org/lib/re- syntax.html), tells you that the "*", "+", and "?" qualifiers are all greedy; they match as much text as possible. What you are looking for are the qualifiers "*?", "+?", "??". Your regex pattern might look like this: "aaa.*?(ddd|fff)". Regards, Marek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
