regex: multiple matching for one string

[tiefeng wu]

2009/7/23 scriptlearner at gmail.com <scriptlearner at gmail.com>:
> For example, I have a string "#a=valuea;b=valueb;c=valuec;", and I
> will like to take out the values (valuea, valueb, and valuec).  How do
> I do that in Python?  The group method will only return the matched
> part.  Thanks.
>
> p = re.compile('#a=*;b=*;c=*;')
> m = p.match(line)
>        if m:
>             print m.group(),
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maybe like this:
>>> p = re.compile(r'#?\w+=(\w+);')
>>> l = re.findall(p, '#a=valuea;b=valueb;c=valuec;')
>>> for r in l: print(r)
...
valuea
valueb
valuec

tiefeng wu
2009-07-23