Simple regexp problem

Chris Dutton chris at cmb-enterprises.com
Mon Feb 25 14:53:01 EST 2002


In <ueljelpvz.fsf at python.net> Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:
>Shane Hoversten <srh232 at nyu.edu> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> 	This question has gotta be real simple.  I want to remove
>> preceeding whitespace from a string.  Seems like I should be able to
>> say (using another example to make it easier to see):
>> 
>> re.sub("^1", "", "11111junk")
>>re.sub("^1*", "", "11111junk")

Or better yet:
re.sub("^1+", "", "11111junk")



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