Regular Expression problem

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:21:35 +0000, §äŽMŠÛ€vªº€@€ù€Ñ wrote:

> I have the following source code
> 
> ------------------------
> import re
> d = 'RTCB\r\nsignature:\xf1\x11
> \xde\x10\xfe\x0f\x9c\x10\xf6\xc9_\x10\xf3\xeb<\x10\xf2Zt\x10\xef\xd2\x91
\x10\xe6\xe7\xfb\x10\xe5p\x99\x10\xe2\x1e\xdf\x10\xdb\x0e\x9f\x10\xd8p\x06
\x10\xce\xb3_\x10\xcc\x8d\xe2\x10\xc8\x00\xa4\x10\xc5\x994\x10\xc2={\x10
\xc0\xdf\xda\x10\xbb\x03\xa3\x1
> 0\xb6E\n\x10\xacM\x12\x10\xa5`\xaa\x10\xa0\xaa\x1b\x10\x9bwy\x10\x9a
\xc4w\x10\x95\xb6\xde\x10\x93o
> \x10\x89N\xd3\x10\x86\xda=\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\r\ncef-
ip:127.0.0.1\r\nsender-ip:152.100.123.77\r\n\r\n'
> m = re.search('signature:(.*?)\r\n',d)
> 
> ---------------------------
> 
> as you can see, there is "signature:..." in front of d
> 
> but re.search can not find the match object, it return None object...


That's because you're trying to match over multiple lines. You need to 
specify the DOTALL flag.


I've re-formatted the string constant to take advantage of Python string 
concatenation, so it is easier to copy and paste into the interactive 
interpreter:


d =('RTCB\r\nsignature:'
    '\xf1\x11\xde\x10\xfe\x0f\x9c\x10\xf6\xc9'
    '_\x10\xf3\xeb'
    '<\x10\xf2'
    'Zt\x10\xef\xd2\x91\x10\xe6\xe7\xfb\x10\xe5'
    'p\x99\x10\xe2\x1e\xdf\x10\xdb\x0e\x9f\x10\xd8'
    'p\x06\x10\xce\xb3'
    '_\x10\xcc\x8d\xe2\x10\xc8\x00\xa4\x10\xc5\x99'
    '4\x10\xc2'
    '={\x10\xc0\xdf\xda\x10\xbb\x03\xa3\x10\xb6'
    'E\n\x10\xac'
    'M\x12\x10\xa5'
    '`\xaa\x10\xa0\xaa\x1b\x10\x9b'
    'wy\x10\x9a\xc4'
    'w\x10\x95\xb6\xde\x10\x93'
    'o\x10\x89'
    'N\xd3\x10\x86\xda'
    '=\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
    '\r\ncef-ip:127.0.0.1\r\nsender-ip:152.100.123.77\r\n\r\n'
    )
assert len(d) == 182


>>> re.search('signature:(.*?)\r\n', d)
>>> re.search('signature:.*?\r\n', d, re.DOTALL)
>>> m
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb7e98138>



-- 
Steven