python regex for repeating string

Question

I am wanting to verify and then parse this string (in quotes):

string = \"start: c12354, c3456, 34526; other stuff that I don\'t care about\"
//Note that som         


        

Answer 1

In Python, this isn’t possible with a single regular expression: each capture of a group overrides the last capture of that same group (in .NET, this would actually be possible since the engine distinguishes between captures and groups).

Your easiest solution is to first extract the part between start: and ; and then using a regular expression to return all matches, not just a single match, using re.findall('c?[0-9]+', text).