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# matchline2 - 
# find all matches of the pattern within the string
# return a list of tuples with three items for each match: (match,start,end) 

import re

def findall2(pattern,text):
    # find all matches of the pattern within the string
    # return a list of tuples with three items for each match: (match,start,end) 
    pos = 0
    matches = []
    re_pattern = re.compile(pattern,re.IGNORECASE)
    match = 1
    while (pos < len(text)) and match:
       match = re_pattern.search(text,pos)
       if match:
          groups = match.groups()
          span = match.span()
          pos = span[1]
          matchrec = (groups[0],span[0],span[1])
          #print "matchrec: ", matchrec
          matches.append(matchrec)
    return matches

pattern = "(\w+\'\w+|\w+\-\w+|\w+)[\s,.!?;]"
line = "\" 'This morning,' he said, 'I had only two amounts to collect; the\n"
matches= findall2(pattern,line)
print "matches: ", matches