[Tutor] MemoryError

[Liam Clarke]

Yeah, that's a bit of a brute force approach alright. Mainly all the
(\n)?(=\n)?...

I, personally, intend to have words with a Mr William Gates regarding
just what horrors Frontpage inflicts. I also intend to discuss this
with gmail.google.com, as they parsed the text attachment I sent
myself, added it to the message body, (it seems),unattached it, and
added to the mess a wee bit. My emails always seem strangely
formatted, so yes...

But, that said, I've been shown far more horrific regexe's. I saw one
to parse an ISO-8601 date string (in PHP, I think?)

Made mine look elegant and simple...

But, it was good to learn a wee bit about the re module. Now that I've
actually done this, I probably won't need to do it again, but I'll
know a bit more about the appropriate use of re's.
I still prefer string methods for the simple stuff. 
 It did start off as a way to avoid cutting & pasting, ended up as a
pursuit of knowledge.
Oh well. 

Thanks to all for the assistance.

Regards,

Liam Clarke

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:50:25 -0500, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
> Well, that's a regex only a mother could love. :-) I can see why you were happy to find the
> (?P<text>) form of grouping.
> 
> You should compile textObj and urlObj outside of getVals. You could just pull the four lines that
> create textObj and urlObj outside of the function (into global scope). You just have to compile a
> regex once, then you can use it multiple times. Compiling is relatively slow so pulling it out of
> the loop is an optimization.
> 
> Congrats on getting this working!
> 
> 
> Kent
> 
> Liam Clarke wrote:
> > Hi Kent,
> >
> > Thanks for the help, it worked third time around!
> >
> > The final product is here if you have an interest  -
> > http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/XCYthC70.html
> >
> > But, I think I found a new best friend for this sort of thing -
> > (?P<text>.*?)
> >
> > Being able to label stuff is brilliant.
> >
> > But yeah, thanks for the help, especially that sub method.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Liam Clarke
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