Re: regex search with a space as the fist character

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Daniel Santos schrieb: Hello, print re.compile('u ').search(" u box2", 1) <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7ff1d918> print re.compile(' u ').search(" u box2", 1) None Why ? because you start searching at the offset 1, which means you try to find " u " in "u box2" - a

Re: regex search with a space as the fist character

Daniel Santos schrieb: Hello, print re.compile('u ').search(" u box2", 1) <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x7ff1d918> print re.compile(' u ').search(" u box2", 1) None Why ? because you start searching at the offset 1, which means you try to find " u " in "u box2" - and that's not found. Di