a newbie regex question

[Dotan Cohen]

On 24/01/2008, Jonathan Gardner <jgardner at jonathangardner.net> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 12:14 pm, Shoryuken <sakradevanamin... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Given a regular expression pattern, for example, \([A-Z].+[a-z]\),
> >
> > print out all strings that match the pattern in a file
> >
> > Anyone tell me a way to do it? I know it's easy, but i'm completely
> > new to python
> >
> > thanks alot
>
> You may want to read the pages on regular expressions in the online
> documentation: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/lib/module-re.html
>
> The simple approach works:
>
>   import re
>
>   # Open the file
>   f = file('/your/filename.txt')
>
>   # Read the file into a single string.
>   contents = f.read()
>
>   # Find all matches in the string of the regular expression and
> iterate through them.
>   for match in re.finditer(r'\([A-Z].+[a-z]\)', contents):
>     # Print what was matched
>     print match.group()

Maybe you mean:
for match in re.finditer(r'\([A-Z].+[a-z])\', contents):

Note the last backslash was in the wrong place.

Dotan Cohen

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