Re: Newbie backreference question

a='test string'
print a.split()[:-1]

I'm assuming that you want the last space separated word?

Larry Bates

paulm wrote:
> Hi,
> In perl I can do something like:
>
> $a = 'test string';
> $a =~ /test (\w+)/;
> $b = $1;
> print $b . "\n";
>
> and my output would be "string".
>
> How might this snippet be written in python?
>
> Thanks to all...
Received on Thu Sep 29 16:40:37 2005