Asheesh Laroia pan-news at asheeshenterprises.com
Wed Feb 27 17:51:25 EST 2002

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I have some SGML input (PageMaker 6.5 tagged text), and I want to be able
to recognize (and delete) a tag.  That tag looks like:

	<@Trap Body text:>

It may also look like <@Trap Body text: useless-data>.

So, I tried the regular expression r"<@.?>".  That doesn't match the
above string.  Nor does r"<@.?Trap Body text.?>".  What RE should I be
using, and why doesn't this work?

Thanks in advance!

-- Asheesh Laroia.

PS: An example of the tag "in the wild" is the following string:

<@Trap Body text=<FONT "Times"><CCOLOR
 "Black"><SIZE 11><HORIZONTAL 100><LETTERSPACE 0><CTRACK 127><CSSIZE 70><C+SIZE 
58.3><C-POSITION 33.3><C+POSITION 33.3><P><CBASELINE 0><CNOBREAK 0><CLEADING -0.05
><GGRID 0><GLEFT 0><GRIGHT 0><GFIRST 19.2><G+BEFORE 0><G+AFTER 0><GALIGNMENT "justify
"><GMETHOD "proportional"><G& "ENGLISH"><GPAIRS 4><G% 120><GKNEXT 0><GKWIDOW 1><GKORPHAN 
1><GTABS $><GHYPHENATION 2 36 0><GWORDSPACE 75 100 150><GSPACE -5 0 25>>

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