Regexps and lists

2007-02-11 Thread Paddy
I don't know enough to write an R.E. engine so forgive me if I am being naive. I have had to atch text involving lists in the past. These are usually comma separated words such as egg,beans,ham,spam,spam you can match that with: r(\w+)(,\w+)* and when you look at the groups you get the following

Re: Regexps and lists

2007-02-11 Thread John Machin
On Feb 12, 9:08 am, Paddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know enough to write an R.E. engine so forgive me if I am being naive. I have had to atch text involving lists in the past. These are usually comma separated words such as egg,beans,ham,spam,spam you can match that with: