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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Groups

Laurens Sandt
Laurens Sandt
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Posted by Laurens Sandt
Laurens Sandt
3,513 Points

regex grouping question

consider my code:

contacts = re.search(r'(?P<email>[-\w.+]+@[-\w.]+),\s(?P<phone>[\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}]+)', string)

am I now right to presume that the fact that I didn't group ,\s makes the engine ommit comma's and white space from my search. I did F around with that comma in particular, it kept showing up on the mail adresses.

Thanks in advance and greetings

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Your comma and space separators look good, and you didn't say what kind of problem you were having, but...

:point_right: It looks like you have mixed a group and a character class in the phone section.

I suspect the brackets and plus sign marked below don't really belong:

(?P<email>[-\w.+]+@[-\w.]+),\s(?P<phone>[\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}]+)
                                        ^                 ^^
Brent Liang
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Brent Liang
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Brent Liang
Brent Liang
Courses Plus Student 2,944 Points

Hi Laurens,

Try this: 

(?P<email>[-\w.+]+@[-\w.]+),\s(?P<phone>[-\d+]+)

Bad character range if you include too many in a set.

Hope it works!