Re: regex that is equivalent to perl's syntax

2007-11-12 Thread Tim Chase
> does python's re library have a similar capability of the perls > regular expression to > search for pattern that appears a variable number of times within the > lower and upper bounds given? For example, what is the python's > equivalent to the following perl's search string? > m/^\S{1,8}\.\S{0,

Re: regex that is equivalent to perl's syntax

2007-11-12 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:38:57 -0800, Lee Sander wrote: > does python's re library have a similar capability of the perls > regular expression to > search for pattern that appears a variable number of times within the > lower and upper bounds given? For example, what is the python's > equivalent to

regex that is equivalent to perl's syntax

2007-11-12 Thread Lee Sander
hi, does python's re library have a similar capability of the perls regular expression to search for pattern that appears a variable number of times within the lower and upper bounds given? For example, what is the python's equivalent to the following perl's search string? m/^\S{1,8}\.\S{0,3}/ whic