If A in B: does nt seem to be working. Am I missing something here.
-$agar On Sep 15, 2011 7:25 AM, "Chris Rebert" <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Sagar Neve <nevesa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I have a small program where I want to do just a small regex operation. >> I want to see if value of a variable 'A' is present in an another variable >> 'B'. The below code works fine but as soon as the variable 'A' has some >> string including a dot it fails. > > There's no need to use regexes at all! Just do: > if A in B: > # do something > >> for example say: >> B="xxxxyyyydpkg.ipazzzzz >> The code works fine when A="dpkg" >> however the code does not work when A="dpkg.ipa" > > Right, because period is a regex metacharacter. To have it treated as > a literal character to match, escape it: > http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.escape > > Cheers, > Chris > -- > http://rebertia.com
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