Not quite right either, even if it didn't have the non matched open
parenthesis after the carat, since it would match "foo-bar--1234.html".
Perhaps '^(?:[a-zA-Z0-9]+-)+(?P<nid>\d+).html$'
(?:...) is a non-capturing group, if you're not familiar with it.
Bill
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Arnold Krille <arn...@arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:46:05 -0800 (PST) Aswani Kumar
> <aswin.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > my url pattern
> >
> > [a-zA-Z0-9]-(?P<nid>\d+).html
> >
> > urls will be like
> >
> > news-in-finland-yesterday-festival-3456.html
> >
> > i want 3456 which is news id.
> >
> > the regex is correct but not working if i keep it in urls.
> > url('^[a-zA-Z0-9]-(?P<nid>\d+).html$', 'tempa'),
>
> Whether your pattern is correct or depends on what you want to achieve:
> - if you want to match a single digit or letter followed by a dash and
> a number uf digits for the id, then your pattern is correct.
> - if you want your pattern to macht the url you have given, then its
> not correct.
>
> You want something like this (untested):
>
> url(r'^([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+-(?P<nid>\d+).html$', 'tempa')
>
> And that only matches lower- and upper-case letters, numbers and
> dashes. If you want to allow any non-ascii characters you might want
> something different in that first parantheses.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Arnold
>
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