On 2023-11-17 07:48:41 -0500, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
> On 11/17/2023 6:17 AM, Peter J. Holzer via Python-list wrote:
> > Oh, and Python (just like Perl) allows you to embed whitespace and
> > comments into Regexps, which helps readability a lot if you have to
> > write long regexps.
> >
[...]
> > > > > re.findall(r'\b[0-9]{2,7}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}\b', txt)
> >
> > \b - a word boundary.
> > [0-9]{2,7} - 2 to 7 digits
> > - - a hyphen-minus
> > [0-9]{2} - exactly 2 digits
> > - - a hyphen-minus
> > [0-9]{2} - exactly 2 digits
> > \b - a word boundary.
> >
> > Seems quite straightforward to me. I'll be impressed if you can write
> > that in Python in a way which is easier to read.
>
> And the re.VERBOSE (also re.X) flag can always be used so the entire
> expression can be written line-by-line with comments nearly the same
> as the example above
Yes. That's what I alluded to above.
hp
--
_ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality.
|_|_) | |
| | | h...@hjp.at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing
__/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!"
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
-- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
