Hi, So I am trying to get the number of casualties in a text. After 'death toll' in the text the number I need is presented as you can see from the variable called text. Here is my code I'm pretty sure my regex is correct, I think it's the group part that's the problem. I am using nltk by python. Group grabs the string in parenthesis and stores it in deadnum and I make deadnum into a list.
text="accounts put the death toll at 637 and those missing at 653 , but the total number is likely to be much bigger" dead=re.match(r".*death toll.*(\d[,\d\.]*)", text) deadnum=dead.group(1) deaths.append(deadnum) print deaths Any help would be appreciated, Thank you, Sania -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list