How do I get to *all* of the groups of an re search?

Andrew Dalke adalke at mindspring.com
Sat Jan 11 12:52:07 EST 2003


Paul Rubin wrote:
> Something wrong with
> 
>   m.string[m.start(g):m.end(g)]
> 
> as described in the docs?

You missed the context of this thread.  He wants all text matched
by a group and not just the most recent.

Something like

   matched_text = m.allmatches(1)

This is a feature most regexp libraries don't support.

					Andrew
					dalke at dalkescientific.com





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