"Malcolm Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> Background: I have a long multi-line string with expressions
> delimited
> with '<(' and ')>' markers. I would like to extract these substrings
> and
> process them in a loop.
>
> I know how to do this task with regular expressions, but I'm always
> cautious about using a bazooka when a hammer will suffice.
Sounds like an ideal candidate for regex and findall to me.
If you have to stop a tank a bazooka may be the right tool...
Alan G.
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