def getCategories(url):         res=[]         f=urllib.urlopen(url)         a=f.read()         f.close()         #p=re.compile(r'<a ...

I never said I wanted to match php/c#/c++ compliant comments, I said I wanted to match comments in the scenarios expressed above. Don't assume too much. If I didn't say it, I didn't mean it. From being regulars on forums, I can see you two are probably used to the majority of people who post questions and want you to assume ...

I never said I wanted to match php/c#/c++ compliant comments, I said I wanted to match comments in the scenarios expressed above. Don't assume too much. If I didn't say it, I didn't mean it. From being regulars on forums, I can see you two are probably used to the majority of people who post questions and want you to assume ...

thanks for the help/input susan your latest regex solution matches here: /* //this is a match */   in the 3rd subgroup and as well as the full match I don't understand how you're unsure about my overall goal, its verbatim my first post here, I always try to specifically explain it well. I"m trying to identify all the ...

I have been working on this regex for about 5 hours straight no joke, its driving me nuts, I've tried several, several things. Here are the rules: it must match // followed by any non linebreak characters  ONLY if it is not in between /*    */   here are some example matches: //* ...

Here's my solution:   <?php function preg_match_ignore_pat($searchPat, $ignorePat, $hay, &$matchesArr) {     $matches = preg_match_all($ignorePat, $hay, $out);     if ($matches && !empty($out[0])) {         $splitArr = preg_split($ignorePat, $hay, -1, ...

I'm having trouble writing a regex to match a phrase ignoring text that is inside html tags. Surely a programming algorithm to match this is possible, but I'd like to do it in regex.    Haystack: <b>this</b> hello <span id="this"> whatever </span> man What is bold below is the expected ...

I will not waste my time with this foolish argument, but I will say to Steve and Mash on your remarks of "real" data and "the purposes of these forums", you are both wrong on many levels. Do not say you have a problem with the "realness of the data" when you really mean you have a problem with question, concept, or ...

this is the real data, does anyone want to answer my question?    re-read this: "i want to match the literal 18 followed by [any amount of characters that is less than 20 characters and not including the literal '12'] followed by the literal 12" I wanted it to be lazy and not consume the '12' before it gets ...

I'd like to know how to use the all character consuming .*? and be able to limit how much it can consume, specifically with a range. Here's a example I made up: i want to match the literal 18 followed by [any amount of characters that is less than 20 characters and not including the literal '12'] followed by the literal 12 in ...