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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Consolas">Hi,<BR>
I am having an issue with something that would seem</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Consolas">to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Consolas">have an easy solution,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Consolas">but</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Consolas">which escapes me. I have configuration files that I would like to parse. The data I am having issue with is a multi-line attribute that has the following structure:<BR>
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banner <option> <banner text delimiter><BR>
Banner text<BR>
Banner text<BR>
Banner text<BR>
...<BR>
<banner text delimiter><BR>
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The regex 'banner\s+(\w+)\s+(.+)' captures the command nicely and banner.group(2) captures the delimiter nicely.<BR>
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My issue is that I need to capture the lines between the delimiters (both delimiters are the same).<BR>
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I have tried various permutations of<BR>
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Delimiter=banner.group(2)<BR>
re.findall(Delimiter'(.*?)'Delimiter, line, re.DOTALL|re.MULTILINE)<BR>
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with no luck<BR>
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Examples I have found online all assume that the starting and ending delimiters are different and are defined directly in re.findall(). I would like to use the original regex extracting the banner.group(2), since it is already done</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Consolas">, if possible</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Consolas">. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Consolas">Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be most appreciated.<BR>
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Thank you,<BR>
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Marc<BR>
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