Regular expression bug?

Ron Garret rNOSPAMon at flownet.com
Thu Feb 19 16:06:32 EST 2009


In article <mailman.277.1235073073.11746.python-list at python.org>,
 "andrew cooke" <andrew at acooke.org> wrote:

> i wonder what fraction of people posting with "bug?" in their titles here
> actually find bugs?

IMHO it ought to be an invariant that len(r.split(s)) should always be 
one more than len(r.findall(s)).

> anyway, how about:
> 
> re.findall('[A-Z]?[a-z]*', 'fooBarBaz')
> 
> or
> 
> re.findall('([A-Z][a-z]*|[a-z]+)', 'fooBarBaz')

That will do it.  Thanks!

rg



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