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Old 03-28-08, 04:29 AM
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ow, sorry, I thought the string was "cancer lung". Well then!

This should do:
Code:
(([a-zA-Z]+)(?:\sof)?\s(?=lung))
this will result in ('cancer of lung', 'cancer') or ('something lung', 'something')
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