[Tutor] Symbol re question

Lloyd Kvam lkvam@venix.com
Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:39:51 -0400


You want "^[0-9]+$" for your regular expression ^ from the beginning $ to the end.

robert frank brenart wrote:
> 
> Alright, this should be easy and it's being a pain... I just want to find
> out if my string is all numbers.
> 
> So I run...
> if ((re.match("[0-9]+", mystring)) != None):
>         print "Pass"
> else:
>         print "Fail"
> 
> But that matches things like 10:45 and 3f, which I don't want it
> to.  What'm I overlooking?
> 
> -Rob
> 
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