Regexp problem

[Beldar]

On 30 jul, 15:07, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Beldar wrote:
> > Hi there!
>
> > I have a problem and i'm not very good at regular expressions.
> > I have a text like "lalala lalala tiruri beldar-is-listening tiruri
> > lalala" I need a regexp to get the 'beldar' part, the format is
> > 'something-is-listening', i need to get the something part, use it in
> > my code, and then replace the whole 'something-is-listening' for
> > another string.
>
> \w+ will match a word and enclosing it in (...) will capture what was
> matched:
>
>      m = re.search(r"(\w+)-is-listening", text)
>      print "Captured '%s'" % m.group(1)
>      print "Matched from %d to %d" % (m.start(), m.end())

Ok, thank you all, it was very helpful!