In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Teja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HI all, > > I need to write a regular experssion for a string which satisfies the > following a criteria : > > 1) it should start with an alphabet I assume you mean, "It should start with a letter"? > 2) it can contain alphabets/digits/_ from second character > 3) it can contain "[a-z]" or "[0-9]" at the end. but this is optional How about: ^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*[a-z0-9]?$ Probably many variations on that theme will also work. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
