regexp question

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)
{
print $1, "\n";
}
# output:
#
# ad1
# ad2
# ad3

Jabba Laci

On Nov 6, 9:50*pm, Jabba Laci <jabba.l...@gmail.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)
> {
> * *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.

Jon Clements