One of the main concepts you have to understand when dealing with special characters in regular expressions is to distinguish between string literals and the regular expression itself.

Dec 20, 2024 · I want to filter strings in a list based on a regular expression. Is there something better than [x for x in list if r.match(x)] ?

I'm having trouble finding the correct regular expression for the scenario below: Lets say: a = "this is a sample" I want to match whole word - for example match "hi" should return False since "h...

Oct 29, 2015 · How to match any string from a list of strings in regular expressions in python? Asked 10 years ago Modified 3 years, 11 months ago Viewed 176k times

bit means that the regular expression compiler gets the escape in \. instead of the python parser interpreting it. The (?i) makes the regex case-insensitive like re.IGNORECASE but self …

Dec 21, 2012 · To escape the dot or period (.) inside a regular expression in a regular python string, therefore, you must also escape the backslash by using a double backslash (\\), making …

Apr 8, 2012 · As you may know, Python 1.5 adds a new regular expression module that more closely matches Perl's syntax. We've tried to be as close to the Perl syntax as possible within …

May 19, 2015 · 23 I am using Python and would like to match all the words after test till a period (full-stop) or space is encountered.

In Python, I can compile a regular expression to be case-insensitive using re.compile:

Feb 24, 2023 · For reference, from regular-expressions.info/dot.html: "JavaScript and VBScript do not have an option to make the dot match line break characters. In those languages, you can …