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+# listAllMatches.py
+#
+# Sample program showing how/when to use listAllMatches to get all matching tokens in a results name.
+#
+# copyright 2006, Paul McGuire
+#
+
+from pyparsing import oneOf, OneOrMore, printables, StringEnd
+
+test = "The quick brown fox named 'Aloysius' lives at 123 Main Street (and jumps over lazy dogs in his spare time)."
+nonAlphas = [ c for c in printables if not c.isalpha() ]
+
+print("Extract vowels, consonants, and special characters from this test string:")
+print("'" + test + "'")
+print('')
+
+print("Define grammar using normal results names")
+print("(only last matching symbol is saved)")
+vowels = oneOf(list("aeiouy"), caseless=True)("vowels")
+cons = oneOf(list("bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz"), caseless=True)("cons")
+other = oneOf(nonAlphas)("others")
+letters = OneOrMore(cons | vowels | other) + StringEnd()
+
+results = letters.parseString(test)
+print(results)
+print(results.vowels)
+print(results.cons)
+print(results.others)
+print('')
+
+
+print("Define grammar using results names, with listAllMatches=True")
+print("(all matching symbols are saved)")
+vowels = oneOf(list("aeiouy"), caseless=True)("vowels*")
+cons = oneOf(list("bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz"), caseless=True)("cons*")
+other = oneOf(nonAlphas)("others*")
+
+letters = OneOrMore(cons | vowels | other)
+
+results = letters.parseString(test, parseAll=True)
+print(results)
+print(sorted(set(results)))
+print('')
+print(results.vowels)
+print(sorted(set(results.vowels)))
+print('')
+print(results.cons)
+print(sorted(set(results.cons)))
+print('')
+print(results.others)
+print(sorted(set(results.others)))
+