[Tutor] regexp help

[Kent Johnson]

I'm not sure what you are trying to do here. It would help to see a sample 
of input and output data.

If you are trying to process stdin by lines, maybe you want to use 
something like
for data in sys.stdin:
         # process one line...

The code you have will read all input from stdin and process it at once. 
The regex will match everything from the first --==--==--==--==-- to the 
last, even spanning many lines. Is that what you want?

Kent


At 04:18 PM 9/22/2004 +0200, Botykai Zsolt wrote:
>Hi for everyone,
>just dived in to regexp, and have some problem, wrote this script to work 
>as a
>pipe for multiline text input.
>
>My problem is
>- how to cut out all the empty lines (empty line: content only space or tab)
>from f_body?
>
>import sys
>import re
>data = sys.stdin.read()
>...
>match_body = re.compile(
>         r"""--==--==--==--==--.(.+).--==--==--==--==--""",
>         re.DOTALL |
>         re.MULTILINE |
>         re.VERBOSE)
>f_body = match_body.search(data)
>f_body = match_body.search(data)
>o_output = f_body.group(0)
>...
>sys.stdout.write(o_output)
>
>Thx for any help,
>Zsoltik@ from Hungary
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