Re: [Pyparsing] expression not greedy enough

[Paul M. <pt...@au...>]

Still no joy in the attachments.  Try just including the text in the body of
your e-mail.  Or use pyparsing.pastebin.com.

-- Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diez B. Roggisch [mailto:de...@we...]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:32 PM
> To: Pyp...@li...
> Subject: [Pyparsing] expression not greedy enough
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm in the process of writing a CSS-parser - and encountered a behavior
> that I
> don't understand.
> 
> The attached file shows it - I expect the expression
> 
> 0 100px
> 
> to be parsed as two tokens, a NUMBER and an LENGTH.
> 
> But instead, it seems to be parsed as NUMBER, NUMBER, IDENT.
> 
> The second test-case shows that if there is only one sub-expression,
> things
> work as expected.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Diez