On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:38 PM, vince spicer <vinces1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Advanced Strings searches are Regex via re module. > > EX: > > import re > > m = re.compile("(FDA.*?(approved| > supported)|Ben[^\s])*") > > if m.search(Text): > print m.search(Text).group()
This won't match "approved FDA" which may be desired. It also quickly gets complicated as the search expressions get more complex. Regex would also have a hard time with something like "FDA" AND NOT "approved" Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor