Regex Wizards

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.

Tarefa

Import re.
Define a text variable as "The cat in the hat".
Search for any 3 characters finishing with "at".
Print the output.

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Seção 1. Capítulo 3

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Regex Wizards

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.

Tarefa

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

Tudo estava claro?

Seção 1. Capítulo 3

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