On Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 3:12:17 PM UTC+12, Doug OLeary wrote: > $ perl -ne 'print if (m{^("?)[1-9]*\.})' tables
Perl has this feature of being able to use alternate delimiter symbols for the pattern; Python does not. > >>> regex = r'^("?)[1-9]*\.' Try putting a backslash in front of the “"”: regex = r'^(\"?)[1-9]*\.' -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list