This is probably a repeated question, but try as I might I was unable to find something similar in the archives.
I'm trying to develop a regular expression for recognizing a simplified C-Style string syntax. I need it to be able to handle escape sequences of the form \x where x is any character including ". Here's what I'm trying: \"([^"\\]|(\\.))*\" When I try to get it to recognize something like: "I said, \"Hello!\"" It stops at the first quote after the \. I've used this very same regular expression in a parser generator I have for C++ and it works just fine. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong in the Python Reg Ex world? Thanks for the comments & help. Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
