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Re: how to right the regular expression ?

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  Re: how to right the regular expression ? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-15 01:26 +0000

#38899 — Re: how to right the regular expression ?

On 2013-02-15 00:32, python wrote:
> the regex--- pat = r'([a-z].+?\s)(.+?)((\(.+\)))?$' ,do not work at all.
>
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Sorry, that should be:

pat1 = r'([a-z].+?\s)(.+?)((\(.+\)))?$'

Group 2 should've been lazy "(.+?)", and because of that it should've
forced matching the end of the line with "$".

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