Problem with Regular Expressions?

[Hans Nowak]

Allan Crooks wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone could tell me if what I want to do is
> possible with a solitary single expression?
> 
> I have a webpage that I want to process, which contains multiple
> <table>'s. I want to find a particular table, which will contains a
> particular word. I want to be able to return each row in the table.
> 
> The regular expression would probably have to match the entire table,
> with grouping needing to be used to capture each row.

Using a regular expression for this probably isn't a good idea.
Take a look at the sgmllib and htmllib modules in the standard
library for a different approach.

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