[Tutor] Advanced String Search using operators AND, OR etc..

[spir]

Le Mon, 4 May 2009 10:38:31 -0600,
vince spicer <vinces1979 at gmail.com> s'exprima ainsi:

> Advanced Strings searches are Regex via re module.
> 
> EX:
> 
> import re
> 
> m = re.compile("(FDA.*?(approved|supported)|Ben[^\s])*")
> 
> if m.search(Text):
>     print m.search(Text).group()
> 
> 
> Vince

This is not at all what the origial poster looks for, I guess (or maybe it didn't understand?). Regex can only match one individual sample of request expressed in a logical form with AND and OR clauses.
What he wants is a module able to decode and perform logical searches. It can certainly be built on top of regex, with a layer that:
* decodes logical requests
* performs "sub-matches" for items in the request
* then builds unions (OR) or intersections (AND) of results

I do not know of anything like that for python. But it would be a nice project ;-)

Denis
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