Something confusing about non-greedy reg exp match

[Ben Finney]

George Burdell <gburdell1 at gmail.com> writes:

> I want to find every occurrence of "money," and for each occurrence, I
> want to scan back to the first occurrence of "hello." How can this be
> done?

By recognising the task: not expression matching, but lexing and
parsing. For which you might find the ‘pyparsing’ library of use
<URL:http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/>.

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Ben Finney