Regexp problem

[Peter Brett]

Marcus Wanner <marcusw at cox.net> writes:

> On 7/30/2009 9:32 AM, Beldar wrote:
>> 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!
> Wow, I really need to learn more about regexp...
> Any tutorials you guys can recommend?

I have to confess that after fiddling with regexps for quite a while
with no great success, I learnt the hard (and best) way, i.e. using
them to write something vile and horrible. [*] I commend this path to
you also. ;-)

Cheers,

                              Peter

[*] http://git.gpleda.org/?p=gaf.git;a=blob;f=libgeda/desktop-i18n;h=6fab9b85b

-- 
Peter Brett <peter at peter-b.co.uk>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre