multiple pattern regular expression

[Carsten Haese]

Nick Stinemates wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:50:56AM -0400, python at bdurham.com wrote:
>> How about this?
>>
>> for line in file:
>>     # ignore lines without = assignment
>>     if '=' in line:
>>         property, value = line.strip().split( '=', 1 )
>>         property = property.strip().lower()
>>         value = value.strip()
>>
>>         # do something with property, value
>>
>> Malcolm
> 
> This works until you have:
> string=The sum of 2+2=4

Actually, it still works, because Malcolm used split()'s maxsplit parameter.

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