RE question

[Michael Hudson]

Benyang Tang <btang at pacific.jpl.nasa.gov> writes:

> >>> m = re.match("([abc])+", "abc"); m.group(1)
> 'c'
> 
> Why is it 'c', instead of 'a'?

On

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/match-objects.html

we find:

   If a group is contained in a part of the pattern that matched
   multiple times, the last match is returned.

So that's why.

Cheers,
M.

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