Re: regexp question
by Jon Clements other posts by this author
Nov 6 2009 2:21PM messages near this date
Re: regexp question
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imputil.py, is this a bug ?
On Nov 6, 9:50Â pm, Jabba Laci <jabba.l...@[...].com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to find all occurences of a substring in a string? I want to
> convert the following Perl code to Python.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laszlo
>
> ==========
>
> my $text = '<a href="ad1">sdqs</a><a href="ad2">sds</a><a href=ad3>qs</a>';
>
> while ($text =~ m#href="?(.*?)"?>#g)
> {
> Â Â print $1, "\n";}
>
> # output:
> #
> # ad1
> # ad2
> # ad3
There's numerous threads on why using regexp's to process html is not
a great idea. Search GGs.
You're better off using beautifulsoup (an HTML parsing library). The
API is simple, and for real-world data is a much better choice.
hth
Jon.
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