On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:49 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: > james_027 wrote: > > hi, > > > > how do I regex that could check on any of the value that match any one > > of these ... 'jan', 'feb', 'mar', 'apr', 'may', 'jun', 'jul', 'aug', > > 'sep', 'oct', 'nov', 'dec' > > > > Thanks > > >>> patr = re.compile('jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|nov|oct|dec') > >>> patr.match("jul") > <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7ff28ad8> > >>> patr.match("nosuch")
Unfortunately, that also matches margarine, mayonnaise, and octopus, just to name a few ;-) -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list