Regex: Limiting Scope without capturing results
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Thu Jul 24 16:14:42 EDT 2003
Gordon> If I remove the ()s around the string|float|color match it stops
Gordon> matching anything, so is there an alternative to these ? Or a
Gordon> way of telling them to limit the scope of the match without
Gordon> capturing the result ?
Sure, use (?:<pattern>). Full details at 11:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/re-syntax.html
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