Regular Expression

[Keith Dart]

Michael McGarry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am horrible with Regular Expressions, can anyone recommend a book on it?
> 
> Also I am trying to parse the following string to extract the number 
> after load average.
> 
> ".... load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.01"
> 
> how can I extract this number with RE or otherwise?

This particular example might be parsed more quickly and easily just by 
chopping it up:

s = ".... load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.01"
[left, right] = s.split(":")
[av1, av2, av3] = map(float, map(str.strip, right.split(",")))



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