simple string parsing ?

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Thanks for this  -I will lookit TPG :)

Tonino


On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:20:15 +0200, Marc Boeren <m.boeren at guidance.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > =+GC142*(GC94+0.5*sum(GC96:GC101))
> >
> > and I want to get :
> >
> > ['=', '+', 'GC142', '*', '(', 'GC94', '+', '0.5', '*', 'sum', '(',
> > 'GC96', ':', 'GC101', ')', ')']
> >
> > how can I get this ??????
> 
> The quick and dirty way: you have a formula containing a lot of
> delimiters. Any part of the string that is not a delimiter is grouped
> into a substring. So:
> 
> >>> formula = '=+GC142*(GC94+0.5*sum(GC96:GC101))'
> >>> delimiters = '=+*():'
> >>> parts = []
> >>> appending = False
> >>> for char in formula:
> ...   if char in delimiters:
> ...     parts+= [char]
> ...     appending = False
> ...   else:
> ...     if appending:
> ...       parts[-1]+= char
> ...     else:
> ...       parts+= [char]
> ...       appending = True
> ...
> >>> parts
> ['=', '+', 'GC142', '*', '(', 'GC94', '+', '0.5', '*', 'sum', '(',
> 'GC96', ':', 'GC101', ')', ')']
> 
> This is simply to get you what you want, if you wish to use this formula
> to actually compute something, it may be wise to dive into the various
> parser packages, I found TPG (Toy Parser Generator) easy to use for
> simple things...
> 
> Cheerio, Marc.
>