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Re: Regex Question

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Regex Question
Date 2012-08-18 11:50 +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.

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Regex Question Frank Koshti <frank.koshti@gmail.com> - 2012-08-17 21:41 -0700
  Re: Regex Question Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-08-18 15:42 +1000
  Re: Regex Question Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-08-18 11:50 +0100
  Re: Regex Question Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-08-18 09:08 -0400
    Re: Regex Question Frank Koshti <frank.koshti@gmail.com> - 2012-08-18 07:21 -0700
  Re: Regex Question Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-08-18 14:22 +0000
    Re: Regex Question Frank Koshti <frank.koshti@gmail.com> - 2012-08-18 07:53 -0700
      Re: Regex Question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-08-18 17:48 +0200
        Re: Regex Question Frank Koshti <frank.koshti@gmail.com> - 2012-08-18 08:56 -0700
      Re: Regex Question Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-08-18 17:50 +0200
      Re: Regex Question Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2012-08-18 19:22 +0300
        Re: Regex Question Frank Koshti <frank.koshti@gmail.com> - 2012-08-18 13:18 -0700
    Re: Regex Question python@bdurham.com - 2012-08-18 12:36 -0400
  Re: Regex Question Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-08-18 13:30 -0400

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