[Tutor] finding special character string

[Santiago Payà i Miralta]

Hi,

Try the partition(sep) and rpartition(sep) in a loop. See:

http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/whatsnew/other-lang.html

Could be funny. Regards,

Santiago

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 03:48:06 -0700 "Dinesh B Vadhia" <dineshbvadhia at hotmail.com> wrote:

> A text document has special character strings defined as "." + "set of
> characters" + ".".  For example, ".sup." or ".quadbond." or ".degree." etc.  The
> length of the characters between the opening "." and closing "." is variable.
>
> Assuming that you don't know beforehand all possible special character strings,
> how do you find all such character strings in the text document?
>
> Dinesh
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