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Regex Wizards (Project)
Advanced Search Function 1/2
The Search function also provides some advanced matching combinations. We will now introduce the most famous one and later practice them in the exercise:
\A
- Matches if the specified characters are at the start of a string;\b
- Matches if the specified characters are at the beginning or end of a word;\D
- Matches any non-decimal digit. Equivalent to [^0-9];\d
- Matches any decimal digit. Equivalent to [0-9];\B
- Opposite of\b
. Matches if the specified characters are not at the beginning or end of a word;.
- period matches any single character.
Task
- Import
re
. - Define a text variable as
"The cat in the hat"
. - Search for any 3 characters finishing with
"at"
. - Print the output.
Task
- Import
re
. - Define a text variable as
"The cat in the hat"
. - Search for any 3 characters finishing with
"at"
. - Print the output.
Mark tasks as Completed
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The Search function also provides some advanced matching combinations. We will now introduce the most famous one and later practice them in the exercise:
\A
- Matches if the specified characters are at the start of a string;\b
- Matches if the specified characters are at the beginning or end of a word;\D
- Matches any non-decimal digit. Equivalent to [^0-9];\d
- Matches any decimal digit. Equivalent to [0-9];\B
- Opposite of\b
. Matches if the specified characters are not at the beginning or end of a word;.
- period matches any single character.
Task
- Import
re
. - Define a text variable as
"The cat in the hat"
. - Search for any 3 characters finishing with
"at"
. - Print the output.
Mark tasks as Completed
Switch to desktop for real-world practiceContinue from where you are using one of the options below
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