is it possible to regex out repeating substrings in a concatenated string?

Asked Jan 10 '23 at 04:22

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String=AUGACGCAUAACCGACGAUGCAGCGGGCAACUAA

I tried

re.findall(r'AUG\w*UAA',string)

this gives me

"AUGACGCAUAACCGACGAUGCAGCGGGCAACUAA"

i want answer to be

"AUGACGCAUAA"

"AUGCAGCGGGCAACUAA"

edited Jan 10 '23 at 04:27

RavinderSingh13

asked Jan 10 '23 at 04:22

Peter

4

Use a [non-greedy quantifier](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#index-6): `r'AUG\w*?UAA'`. – Amadan Jan 10 '23 at 04:24
Does this answer your question? [Python non-greedy regexes](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/766372/python-non-greedy-regexes) – relent95 Jan 10 '23 at 07:55

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