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Re: python regex: variable length of positive lookbehind assertion

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Marko Rauhamaa writes:

> Jussi Piitulainen writes:
>
>> alister writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 20:28:24 -0700, Yubin Ruan wrote:
>>>> Given a string like this:
>>>> 
>>>>     >>>string = "false_head <a>aaa</a> <a>bbb</a> false_tail \
>>>>              true_head some_text_here <a>ccc</a> <a>ddd</a> <a>eee</a>
>>>>              true_tail"
>>>>
>>>> I want to match the all the text surrounded by those "<a> </a>",
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> don't try to use regex to parse html it wont work reliably
>>> [...]
>>
>> Nothing in the question indicates that the data is HTML.
>
> And nothing in alister's answer suggests that.

Now *I'm* surprised.

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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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