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Re: Regex Question

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Frank Koshti wrote:

> I need to match, process and replace $foo(x=3), knowing that (x=3) is
> optional, and the token might appear simply as $foo.
> 
> To do this, I decided to use:
> 
> re.compile('\$\w*\(?.*?\)').findall(mystring)
> 
> the issue with this is it doesn't match $foo by itself, and requires
> there to be () at the end.

>>> s = """
... <h1>$foo1</h1>
... <p>$foo2()</p>
... <p>$foo3(anything could go here)</p>
... """
>>> re.compile("(\$\w+(?:\(.*?\))?)").findall(s)
['$foo1', '$foo2()', '$foo3(anything could go here)']

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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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