[Tutor] Regular expressions question

[Brett Ritter]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Ed Owens <eowens0124 at gmx.com> wrote:

> >>> m = re.search(':\b(\w+\s+\d+,\s+\d+,\s+\d+:\d+.m\s+\w+)<', str(string))
> >>> print m
> None
> >>>
>

Okay, without the double-quote (it wasn't the colon that I was worried
about, it was the double-quote), I believe the issue now is that you have a
space in the string (after the colon), but \b is a zero-width match.

-- 
Brett Ritter / SwiftOne
swiftone at swiftone.org
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