Splitting on '^' ?

[Gary Herron]

kj wrote:
> Sometimes I want to split a string into lines, preserving the
> end-of-line markers.  In Perl this is really easy to do, by splitting
> on the beginning-of-line anchor:
>
>   @lines = split /^/, $string;
>
> But I can't figure out how to do the same thing with Python.  E.g.:
>
>   
>>>> import re
>>>> re.split('^', 'spam\nham\neggs\n')
>>>>         
> ['spam\nham\neggs\n']
>   
>>>> re.split('(?m)^', 'spam\nham\neggs\n')
>>>>         
> ['spam\nham\neggs\n']
>   
>>>> bol_re = re.compile('^', re.M)
>>>> bol_re.split('spam\nham\neggs\n')
>>>>         
> ['spam\nham\neggs\n']
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>   
Just split on the EOL character:  the "\n":
re.split('\n', 'spam\nham\neggs\n')
['spam', 'ham', 'eggs', '']

The "^" and "$" characters do not match END-OF-LINE, but rather the  
END-OF-STRING, which was doing you no good.


Gary Herron




> kynn
>   

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