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Stupid Regex Question

I'm feeling dumb:

str = "<tag>text<innertag>moretext</innertag></tag><tag>text</tag>"

How can I get a list like ["text<innertag>moretext</innertag>",
"text"] using regexes? I'm starting to believe it's not possible.

Yeah, I know about the terror stories about using regexes to parse
HTML, but in this particular case, using a SAX parser would be an
horrendous overhead (I mean, it's a ridiculously simple string).

=-
Jonas Galvez
jonasgalvez.com/blog
macromedia.com/go/team

Jul 18 '05 #1
2 1423
small loop problem?

Jonas Galvez wrote:
I'm feeling dumb:

str = "<tag>text<innertag>moretext</innertag></tag><tag>text</tag>"

How can I get a list like ["text<innertag>moretext</innertag>",
"text"] using regexes? I'm starting to believe it's not possible.

Yeah, I know about the terror stories about using regexes to parse
HTML, but in this particular case, using a SAX parser would be an
horrendous overhead (I mean, it's a ridiculously simple string).

=-
Jonas Galvez
jonasgalvez.com/blog
macromedia.com/go/team


Jul 18 '05 #2
Jonas Galvez:
str = "<tag>text<innertag>moretext</innertag></tag><tag>text</tag>"
How can I get a list like ["text<innertag>moretext</innertag>", "text"]
using regexes? I'm starting to believe it's not possible.


You can try with:

re.findall("<tag>(.*?)</tag>",str)

(if you don't have nested tag like in this case)
..*? means anychar (.) many times or never (*) but least as possible (?)

Greetings,
Zenzero
Jul 18 '05 #3

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