Python regular expressions

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Overview

The table below offers some more-or-less equivalent mappings between scanf() format tokens and regular expressions. scanf() Token Regular Expression %c . %5c .{5} %d [-+]?\d+ %e, %E, %f, %g [-+]?(\d+(\.\d*)?|\.\d+)([eE][-+]?\d+)? %i [-+]?(0[xX][\dA-Fa-f]+|0[0-7]*|\d+) %o [-+]?[0-7]+ %s \S+ %u \d+ %x, %X [-+]?(0[xX])?[\dA-Fa-f]+ To extract the filename and numbers from a string like /usr/sbin/sendmail - 0 errors, 4 warnings you would use a scanf() format like %s - %d errors, %d warnings The equivalent regular expression would be (\S+) - (\d+) errors, (\d+) warnings search() vs. match()¶ Python offers different primitive operations based on regular expressions: re.match() checks for a match only at the beginning of the string re.search() checks for a match anywhere in the string (this is what Perl does by default) re.fullmatch() checks for entire string to be a match For example: re.match("c", "abcdef") # No match re.search("c", "abcdef") # Match re.fullmatch("p.*n", "python") # Match re.fullmatch("r.*n", "python") # No match Regular expressions beginning with '^' can be used with search() to restrict the match at the beginning of the string: re.match("c", "abcdef") # No match re.search("^c", "abcdef") # No match re.search("^a", "abcdef") # Match Note however that in MULTILINE mode match() only matches at the beginning of the string, whereas using search() with a regular expression beginning with '^' will match at the beginning of each line. re.match("X", "A\nB\nX", re. — re — Regular expression operations — Python 3.13.18 documentation (2009)

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re — Regular expression operations — Python 3.13.18 documentation (2009)

The table below offers some more-or-less equivalent mappings between scanf() format tokens and regular expressions. scanf() Token Regular Expression %c . %5c .{5} %d [-+]?\d+ %e, %E, %f, %g [-+]?(\d+(\.\d*)?|\.\d+)([eE][-+]?\d+)? %i [-+]?(0[xX][\dA-Fa-f]+|0[0-7]*|\d+) %o [-+]?[0-7]+ %s \S+ %u \d+ %x, %X [-+]?(0[xX])?[\dA-Fa-f]+ To extract the filename and numbers from a string like /usr/sbin/sendmail - 0 errors, 4 warnings you would use a scanf() format like %s - %d errors, %d warnings The equivalent regular expression would be (\S+) - (\d+) errors, (\d+) warnings search() vs. match()¶ Python offers different primitive operations based on regular expressions: re.match() checks for a match only at the beginning of the string re.search() checks for a match anywhere in the string (this is what Perl does by default) re.fullmatch() checks for entire string to be a match For example: re.match("c", "abcdef") # No match re.search("c", "abcdef") # Match re.fullmatch("p.*n", "python") # Match re.fullmatch("r.*n", "python") # No match Regular expressions beginning with '^' can be used with search() to restrict the match at the beginning of the string: re.match("c", "abcdef") # No match re.search("^c", "abcdef") # No match re.search("^a", "abcdef") # Match Note however that in MULTILINE mode match() only matches at the beginning of the string, whereas using search() with a regular expression beginning with '^' will match at the beginning of each line. re.match("X", "A\nB\nX", re. (new this job) — source

The text categories are specified with regular expressions. (new this job) — source

Mastering Regular Expressions. 3rd ed., O’Reilly Media, 2009. (new this job) — source

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Status Thin. Verified claims 3. On-topic sources 1 (reused 0). Dropped 0 collector hit(s) and 0 off-topic local claim(s). Conflicts 0. Coverage: python, regular, expressions.

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