Help with regex

[Nobody]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:35:57 -0700, Robert Dailey wrote:

> I'm creating a python script that is going to try to search a text
> file for any text that matches my regular expression. The thing it is
> looking for is:
> 
> FILEVERSION #,#,#,#
> 
> The # symbol represents any number that can be any length 1 or
> greater. Example:
> 
> FILEVERSION 1,45,10082,3
> 
> The regex should only match the exact above. So far here's what I have
> come up with:
> 
> re.compile( r'FILEVERSION (?:[0-9]+\,){3}[0-9]+' )

[0-9]+ allows any number of leading zeros, which is sometimes undesirable.
Using:

	(0|[1-9][0-9]*)

is more robust.