I have a file that includes a bunch of strings like “size=XXX;”. I am trying Python’s re module for the first time and am a bit mystified by the following behavior: if I use a pipe for ‘or’ in a regular expression, I only see that bit of the match returned. E.g.:
I have the following: <text top="52" left="20" width="383" height="15" font="0"><b>test</b></text> and I have the following: fileText = re.sub("<b>(.*?)</b>", "1", fileText, flags=re.DOTALL) In which fileText is the string I posted above. When I print out fileText after I run the regex replacement I get back <text top="52" left="20" width="383" height="15" font="0"></text> instead of the expected <text … Read more
I’m looking for Python code that removes C and C++ comments from a string. (Assume the string contains an entire C source file.)
I have read multiple posts regarding this error, but I still can’t figure it out. When I try to loop through my function:
Lets say I have a list of strings,
I want to get the first match of a regex.
How can I access captured groups if I do findall(r'regex(with)capturing.goes.here') ?
I know I can do it through finditer, but I don’t want to iterate.
Can a regular expression match whitespace or the start of a string?
I have a string S = '02143' and a list A = ['a','b','c','d','e']. I want to replace all those digits in ‘S’ with their corresponding element in list A.
Assume the following word sequence