overlapping

How to find overlapping matches with a regexp? Question: >>> match = re.findall(r’ww’, ‘hello’) >>> print match [‘he’, ‘ll’] Since ww means two characters, ‘he’ and ‘ll’ are expected. But why do ‘el’ and ‘lo’ not match the regex? >>> match1 = re.findall(r’el’, ‘hello’) >>> print match1 [‘el’] >>> Asked By: futurenext110 || Source Answers: …

How to use regex to find all overlapping matches Question: I’m trying to find every 10 digit series of numbers within a larger series of numbers using re in Python 2.6. I’m easily able to grab no overlapping matches, but I want every match in the number series. Eg. in “123456789123456789” I should get the …