OT: regular expression matching multiple occurrences of one group

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:59:53 -0300, Jon Clements <joncle at googlemail.com>  
escribió:
> On Nov 9, 1:53 pm, pinkisntwell <pinkisntw... at gmail.com> wrote:

>> How can I make a regular expression that will match every occurrence
>> of a group and return each occurrence as a group match? For example,
>> for a string "-c-c-c-c-c", how can I make a regex which will return a
>> group match for each occurrence of "-c"?
>
> As well as what Diez has said, unless you absolutely want regexp's,
> and by the sounds of it I'm guessing you may be after something more
> flexible: what about the pyparsing module [1]. It handles your
> situation quite nicely.
>
>>>> import pyparsing
>>>> parser = pyparsing.ZeroOrMore('-c')
>>>> parser.parseString('-c-c-c-c-c-c')
> (['-c', '-c', '-c', '-c', '-c', '-c'], {})

Not that I like regexes very much, but findall does exactly that:

py> re.findall('-c', '-c-c-c-c-c-c')
['-c', '-c', '-c', '-c', '-c', '-c']

Now, the OP said "return each occurrence as a group match":

py> for g in re.finditer("-c", '-c-c-c-c-c-c'): print g, g.span(),  
g.group()
...
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00C096E8> (0, 2) -c
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00C09410> (2, 4) -c
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00C096E8> (4, 6) -c
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00C09410> (6, 8) -c
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00C096E8> (8, 10) -c
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x00C09410> (10, 12) -c

-- 
Gabriel Genellina