(Newbie) Counting Instances ("Hits") with Regular Expressions

[Emile van Sebille]

Dave Reed
> 
> I don't think he wants to count those, only ' am '
> 
> There is a much easier solution than what I originally posted:
> 
> import re
> s = 'the word is the word but not a keyword'
> re.findall('\sword\s')
> 
> outputs: [' word ', ' word ']
> so len(re.findall('\sword\s') will do what he wants
> 

>>> s = 'the word is the word, but not a keyword'
>>> re.findall(r'\b(word)\b', s.lower())
['word', 'word']
>>>

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Emile van Sebille
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