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Re: Help with regular expression in python

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Date Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:21:58 -0600
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On Friday, August 19, 2011, jmfauth wrote:
> On 19 août, 19:33, Matt Funk <matze...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The results obtained are:
> > results:
> > [(' 2.199000e+01', ' : (instance: 0)\t:\tsome description')]
> > so this matches the last number plus the string at the end of the line,
> > but no retaining the previous numbers.
> > 
> > Anyway, i think at this point i will go another route. Not sure where the
> > issues lies at this point.
> 
> Seen on this list:
> 
> And always keep this in mind:
> 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
> regular expressions."  Now they have two problems.'
> --Jamie Zawinski, comp.lang.emacs
> 
> 
> I proposed a solution which seems to corresponds to your problem
> if it were better formulated...
Agreed, and i will probably take your proposed route or a similar one. 
However, i still won't know WHY it didn't work. I would really LIKE to know 
why, simply because it tickles me.

matt

> 
> jmf

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Re: Help with regular expression in python Matt Funk <matze999@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 09:20 -0600
  Re: Help with regular expression in python jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 08:50 -0700
  Re: Help with regular expression in python Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2011-08-19 18:00 +0200
    Re: Help with regular expression in python Matt Funk <matze999@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 11:33 -0600
      Re: Help with regular expression in python jmfauth <wxjmfauth@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 11:40 -0700
        Re: Help with regular expression in python Matt Funk <matze999@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 15:21 -0600
      Re: Help with regular expression in python "rurpy@yahoo.com" <rurpy@yahoo.com> - 2011-08-19 12:55 -0700
        Re: Help with regular expression in python MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-08-19 21:43 +0100
      Re: Help with regular expression in python Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 13:11 -0700
        Re: Help with regular expression in python Matt Funk <matze999@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 15:55 -0600
        Re: Help with regular expression in python Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2011-08-22 15:59 +0200

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