When matching a string against a longer string, where both strings have spaces
in them, we need to escape the spaces.
This works (no spaces):
import re
example = 'abcdefabcdefabcdefg'
find_string = "abc"
for match in re.finditer(find_string, example):
print(match.start(), match.end())
That gives me the start and end character positions, which is what I want.
However, this does not work:
import re
example = re.escape('X - cty_degrees + 1 + qq')
find_string = re.escape('cty_degrees + 1')
for match in re.finditer(find_string, example):
print(match.start(), match.end())
I’ve tried several other attempts based on my reseearch, but still no match.
I don’t have much experience with regex, so I hoped a reg-expert might help.
Thanks,
Jen
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