[Tutor] Regular expression grouping insert thingy

[Lang Hurst]

Oh.  Crap, I knew it would be something simple, but honestly, I don't 
think that I would have gotten there.  Thank you so much.  Seriously 
saved me more grey hair.

Matthew Wood wrote:
> re.sub(r'(\d+)x', r'\1*x', input_text)
>
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> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Lang Hurst <lang at tharin.com 
> <mailto:lang at tharin.com>> wrote:
>
>     This is so trivial (or should be), but I can't figure it out.
>
>     I'm trying to do what in vim is
>
>     :s/\([0-9]\)x/\1*x/
>
>     That is, "find a number followed by an x and put a "*" in between
>     the number and the x"
>
>     So, if the string is "6443x - 3", I'll get back "6443*x - 3"
>
>     I won't write down all the things I've tried, but suffice it to
>     say, nothing has done it.  I just found myself figuring out how to
>     call sed and realized that this should be a one-liner in python
>     too.  Any ideas?  I've read a lot of documentation, but I just
>     can't figure it out.  Thanks.
>
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