leftmost longest match (of disjunctions)
Joerg Schuster
js at cis.uni-muenchen.de
Mon Dec 1 12:11:28 EST 2003
Hello,
The program given below returns the lines:
a
ab
Is there a way to use python regular expressions such that the program
would return the following lines?
ab
ab
########################################################################
import re
rx1 = re.compile("(a|ab)")
rx2 = re.compile("(ab|a)")
out1 = rx1.search("ab")
out2 = rx2.search("ab")
print out1.group(1)
print out2.group(1)
########################################################################
Jörg
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