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On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:41:07 -0700 (PDT), Frank Koshti
<frank.koshti@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 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>
>
	That looks like HTML... DON'T USE regular expressions -- use an HTML
parser (or for well-formed XHTML, an XML parser -- element-tree or
such), and walk the resultant structure...
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