pyparsing ambiguity

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Published on 2010-06-05T21:40:58Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 23:42 UTC
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I'm trying to parse some text using PyParser. The problem is that I have names that can contain white spaces. So my input might look like this:

Joe
Bob
Jimmy Foo
Joe decides to eat.
Bob decides to not eat.
Jimmy Foo decides to eat.

How can I create a parser for the decides to eat line? If I create my name parser naively, meaning with alphabetic characters plus space characters, then it will match the entire line.

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