[Tutor] String matching

[Max Noel]

On Nov 26, 2004, at 16:07, Bernard Lebel wrote:

> >>> import re
> >>> mystring = 'helloworldmynameisbernardlebel'
>
> Now I wish to attempt a match with 'bernard'.
>
> >>> if not re.compile( 'bernard' ).match( mystring ) == None:
> ... 	print 'success'
>
> Well, nothing gets printed. Could anyone tell me how to achieve that 
> simple type of matching?

	You need to use search(), not match(). match() tries to match the 
pattern to the beginning of the string. IOW, in your case it tries to 
see if mystring begins with "bernard".

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