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Subject: Re: Regex Question
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:50:03 +0100
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On 18/08/2012 06:42, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Frank Koshti <frank.koshti@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to regular expressions. I want to be able to match for tokens
>> with all their properties in the following examples. I would
>> appreciate some direction on how to proceed.
>>
>>
>> <h1>@foo1</h1>
>> <p>@foo2()</p>
>> <p>@foo3(anything could go here)</p>
>
> You can find regular expression primers all over the internet - fire
> up your favorite search engine and type those three words in. But it
> may be that what you want here is a more flexible parser; have you
> looked at BeautifulSoup (so rich and green)?
>
> ChrisA
>

Totally agree with the sentiment.  There's a comparison of python 
parsers here http://nedbatchelder.com/text/python-parsers.html

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.