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, 1 month ago Modified 3 years, 11 months ago Viewed 176k times

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)] ?

For future reference, you might find this useful: Regular Expression HOWTO for Python 2.7.

Mar 14, 2013 · Regular expression to filter list of strings matching a pattern Asked 12 years, 8 months ago Modified 2 years, 11 months ago Viewed 22k times

The regular expression search method returns an object on success and None if the pattern is not found in the string. With that in mind, we return True as long as the search gives us something …

Apr 7, 2011 · @VaradBhatnagar You would need to escape the ? character in your regular expression. As an example in Clojure, if you wanted to match the string foo?, you could use …

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 22, 2014 · whitespace in regular expression Asked 11 years, 7 months ago Modified 6 years, 3 months ago Viewed 109k times

Edit: The regular expression here is a python raw string literal, which basically means the backslashes are not treated as special characters and are passed through to the re.search() …