[Tutor] Help with regular expressions

[Karthikesh Raju]

Hi All,

i am trying to craft a regular expression to do the following:

in a file say a.txt

a.txt

1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 23 34 54 56

*** ( 3  5 ) ***

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Now i want to match the *** ( 3  5 ) *** line and load
3 in rows and 5 in columns.

Where should i start?

i tried

import re

p = re.compile('\( [0-9]+ [0-9]+ \)')
a = '( 3 5 )'
p.match(a)

didnt move a cm ....

warm regards

karthik


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