On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Ross Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm assuming this falls under the rubric of text parsing. Here's what I > want to make: > A way to create a set of user defined tags or markers that can be applied > to any section of a text document. Then I want a function that will write > to a file all of the tagged/marked text (that is text between tag_start and > tag_end), preferably with a reference to the file from which it came.
You could do that with just string find and slicing but I think it will be simpler with regular expressions. You can make a regex to match everything from 'tag_start' to 'tag_end' and use a group to pull out the stuff in between. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
