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Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion

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Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi>:

> Michael Torrie writes:
>
>> On 06/15/2016 08:57 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>>> Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>>>> And nothing in alister's answer suggests that.
>>> 
>>> Now *I'm* surprised.
>>
>> He simply said, here's a regex that can parse the example string the OP
>> gave us (which maybe looked a bit like HTML, but like you say, may not
>> be), but don't try to use this method to parse actual HTML because it
>> won't work reliably.
>
> Interesting how differently we can read alister's answer. It was only
> two sentences, one of which Marko replaced with "[...]" before adding
> his own one-liner that is still quoted above.
> [...]
>
> That followed the fully quoted original message, and then there was an
> attributed citation from a Bengamin Disraeli, separated as a .sig.
>
> [...]
>
> A surprise calls for an explanation. Or should I say that I felt that
> this particular expression of surprise seemed to me to call for an
> explanation, or in the very least that an explanation would not do much
> harm and might even be considered mildly interesting. And I saw a fully
> adequate explanation: that the question was not about parsing HTML. So I
> said so.

This is so meta.


Marko

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python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 20:28 -0700
  Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 21:18 -0700
    Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com> - 2016-06-14 21:38 -0700
  Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-06-15 08:10 +0300
  Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 10:31 +0200
  Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-06-15 12:27 +0000
    Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-06-15 15:55 +0300
      Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-15 17:33 +0300
        Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-06-15 17:57 +0300
          Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 18:40 -0600
            Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-06-16 08:39 +0300
              Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-06-16 09:03 +0300
      Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2016-06-15 15:31 +0000
        Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-06-15 19:04 +0300

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