Clarify Regex in Python.

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Tue Sep 12 08:22:26 EDT 2006


cooldudevamsee at gmail.com wrote:
> After may frustrated attempts I came to know that  "match" function in
> python re package actually start the matchs at the begining of the
> subject, where "search" will find the given pattern any where in the
> subject.
> 
> My Problem is, I want to know how can I force match functions to match
> the pattern any location in the subject. i.e I want to turn off before
> said behaviour.
> 
> 
> Thanks In advance.
> 
Erm, is there some specific reason why you can't just use the search 
method? Why does it *have* to be match()?

regards
  Steve
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