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Hi Jeff,



>At 10:29 PM 6/29/2004, Jeff Peery wrote:

>>hello I am having trouble with using the re module. I have a statement:

>>

>>line = FileHandle.readline(-1)

>>test = findall('\d', line)

>>

>>where "line" is a line of text from a file I would like
to read and

>>extract numbers from. the line is simply three numbers, example

>>3.444456    4   84.3546354.  I want to put
these number in "test" but the

>>findall expression seems to only take whole numbers, so for example
test

>>would be for the above numbers [3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 4, 8, ....].
 How is

>>this done so that test = [3.444456    4   84.3546354]?

>

>

>>>> re.findall(r'\d+.?\d*', '3.444456
   4   84.3546354')

>['3.444456', '4 ', '84.3546354']





I fell that, you are looking for
this:



>>> re.findall('\S+',
'3.444456    4   84.3546354')

['3.444456', '4', '84.3546354']





Yours sincerely,

J�nos Juh�sz