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Python - Regular Expressions - Code

The document provides examples of how to use regular expression patterns in Python including character sets, special sequences, wildcards, quantifiers, grouping and alternation. Each pattern is accompanied by a short Python code snippet to search and extract matches from a sample string.

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Python - Regular Expressions - Code

The document provides examples of how to use regular expression patterns in Python including character sets, special sequences, wildcards, quantifiers, grouping and alternation. Each pattern is accompanied by a short Python code snippet to search and extract matches from a sample string.

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Eswar Raj
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[] A set of characters "[a-m]"


\ Signals a special sequence (can also be used to escape special characters) "\d"
. Any character (except newline character) "he..o"
^ Starts with "^hello"
$ Ends with "world$"
* Zero or more occurrences "aix*"
+ One or more occurrences "aix+"
{} Exactly the specified number of occurrences"al{2}"
| Either or "falls|stays"
() Capture and group

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[] A set of characters
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import re

str = "The rain in Spain"

#Find all lower case characters alphabetically between "a" and "m":

x = re.findall("[a-m]", str)
print(x)

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\ Signals a special sequence
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import re

str = "That will be 59 dollars"

#Find all digit characters:

x = re.findall("\d", str)
print(x)

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. Any character (except newline character)
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import re

str = "hello world"

#Search for a sequence that starts with "he", followed by two (any) characters, and an "o":

x = re.findall("he..o", str)
print(x)

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^ Starts with
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import re

str = "hello world"

#Check if the string starts with 'hello':

x = re.findall("^hello", str)
if (x):
print("Yes, the string starts with 'hello'")
else:
print("No match")

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$ Ends with
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import re

str = "hello world"

#Check if the string ends with 'world':

x = re.findall("world$", str)
if (x):
print("Yes, the string ends with 'world'")
else:
print("No match")
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* Zero or more occurrences
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import re
str = "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain!"

#Check if the string contains "ai" followed by 0 or more "p" characters:

x = re.findall("aip*", str)
print(x)

if (x):
print("Yes, there is at least one match!")
else:
print("No match")
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+ One or more occurrences
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import re

str = "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain!"

#Check if the string contains "ai" followed by 1 or more "p" characters:

x = re.findall("aip+", str)

print(x)

if (x):
print("Yes, there is at least one match!")
else:
print("No match")
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{} Exactly the specified number of occurrences
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import re

str = "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain!"

#Check if the string contains "a" followed by exactly two "l" characters:

x = re.findall("al{2}", str)

print(x)

if (x):
print("Yes, there is at least one match!")
else:
print("No match")
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| Either or
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import re

str = "The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain!"

#Check if the string contains either "falls" or "stays":

x = re.findall("falls|stays", str)

print(x)

if (x):
print("Yes, there is at least one match!")
else:
print("No match")
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