Fix error and expand docstring examples for ParserElement.searchString

git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/pyparsing/code/trunk@458 9bf210a0-9d2d-494c-87cf-cfb32e7dff7b

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/pyparsing.py b/src/pyparsing.py
index 933cf63..d22c683 100644
--- a/src/pyparsing.py
+++ b/src/pyparsing.py
@@ -1758,8 +1758,12 @@ class ParserElement(object):
             cap_word = Word(alphas.upper(), alphas.lower())

             

             print(cap_word.searchString("More than Iron, more than Lead, more than Gold I need Electricity"))

+

+            # the sum() builtin can be used to merge results into a single ParseResults object

+            print(sum(cap_word.searchString("More than Iron, more than Lead, more than Gold I need Electricity")))

         prints::

-            ['More', 'Iron', 'Lead', 'Gold', 'I']

+            [['More'], ['Iron'], ['Lead'], ['Gold'], ['I'], ['Electricity']]

+            ['More', 'Iron', 'Lead', 'Gold', 'I', 'Electricity']

         """

         try:

             return ParseResults([ t for t,s,e in self.scanString( instring, maxMatches ) ])