On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 16:12:34 UTC+1, Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
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> Is there a way I can extract the named groups from a regular expression?
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> e.g. given "(?P<testgrp>\d)" I want to get something like ["testgrp"].
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> OR
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> Can I make the match object to return default values for named groups, even
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> if no match was produced?
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> Thanks,
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> Florian
If you can, my approach would to have a class which you use both to create
the regex (using group names), and return the names of the groups in the
regex you have created.
As I say, this might not be possible in your case though.
Jon N
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