[Tutor] regex question

[Richard D. Moores]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:57, Richard D. Moores <rdmoores at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:41, Richard D. Moores <rdmoores at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please see http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/z9YeSYRw . I'm actually
>> searching RTF files, not TXT files.
>>
>> I want to modify this script to handle searching on a word. So what,
>> for example, should line 71 be?
>
> OK, I think I've got it.
>
> in place of lines 66-75 I now have
>
> search = input("first search string: ")
>    search = "\\b" + search + "\\b"
>    if not search:
>        print("Bye")
>        sys.exit()
>    elif search[0] != ' ':
>        p = re.compile(search, re.I)
>    else:
>        p = re.compile(search)

Oops. That should be

search = input("first search string: ")
    if not search:
        print("Bye")
        sys.exit()
    elif search[0] != ' ':
        search = "\\b" + search + "\\b"
        p = re.compile(search, re.I)
    else:
        search = "\\b" + search + "\\b"
        p = re.compile(search)

Dick