Hello,
I wonder if someone could tell me where I am going wrong with my
regular expression, please. My regex only matches the text I'm
looking for (a number followed by a distance unit) when it appears at
the beginning of the string. But I am not using the ^ character
(which would indicate that I only want a match if it is at the start).
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#
import re
regex1 = re.compile("[0-9]+ (feet|meters)", re.IGNORECASE)
def is_distance(str):
if regex1.match(str):
print "distance"
else:
print "not distance"
# First one matches, second does not -- WHY?
is_distance("300 feet is the distance")
is_distance("The distance is 300 feet")
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Thank you!
J-C
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