RE newbie question
Rob Gaddi
rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid
Wed Apr 18 15:57:53 EDT 2018
On 04/18/2018 12:37 PM, TUA wrote:
> import re
>
> compval = 'A123456_8'
> regex = '[a-zA-Z]\w{0,7}'
>
> if re.match(regex, compval):
> print('Yes')
> else:
> print('No')
>
>
> My intention is to implement a max. length of 8 for an input string. The above works well in all other respects, but does allow for strings that are too long.
>
> What is the proper way to fix this?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
You could put the end marker $ on your regex so that it won't match if
it's not the end.
Or, you know, you could just check len(compval) <= 8 and not get bogged
down in regexes. They tend to be excellent solutions to only a very
specific complexity of problem.
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