Regex help
 

Hi all,

I need some help with a regular expression. I need to match entire Python functions; so, beginning with "(\W+)def .*(.*):" I need to math the following line, assuming it begins with more whitespace the first line, and any following lines that begin with the same amount of whitespace as that line. I am not worried about one-liners and other details right now, just what I described.

Please help! I'm not even sure this is possible, but I hope it is.

Re: Regex help
 

Try something like:
r"^\W*def .*\(.*\):.*\n(\W+).*(\n\1.*)*"
Notes:

1. I used \r so the backslashes don't mean escape. I don't
2. Changed the + to a * after the first \W so you can have "def" starting at the start of the line
3. Changed the ( to \( so that it actually matched the bracket in the source rather than being a collecting group
4. I used a collecting group (\W+) to collect the first lot of leading spaces
5. \1 matches the white space collected in the first group above

Hope this helps - It seemed to work for me, but I didn't try it out extensively.