On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 06:24, jose isaias cabrera <jic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Greetings. > > For the RegExp Gurus, consider the following python3 code: > <code> > import re > s = "pn=align upgrade sd=2023-02-" > ro = re.compile(r"pn=(.+) ") > r0=ro.match(s) > >>> print(r0.group(1)) > align upgrade > </code> > > This is wrong. It should be 'align' because the group only goes up-to > the space. Thoughts? Thanks. >
Not a bug. Find the longest possible match that fits this; as long as you can find a space immediately after it, everything in between goes into the .+ part. If you want to exclude spaces, either use [^ ]+ or .+?. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
