python re regex example

Example 1: python regular expression

import re

# The string you want to find a pattern within
test_string = 'Hello greppers!'

# Creating a regular expression pattern
# This is a simple one which finds "Hello"
pattern = re.compile(r'Hello')

# This locates and returns all the occurences of the pattern
# within the test_string
match = pattern.finditer(test_string)

# Outputs all the ocurrences which were returned as 
# as match objects
for match in matches:
  print(match)

Example 2: Python Regex documentation\

>>> import re
>>> m = re.search('(?<=abc)def', 'abcdef')
>>> m.group(0)
'def'

Example 3: re python3

import re
>>> m = re.search('(?<=abc)def', 'abcdef')
>>> m.group(0)
'def'

Example 4: re.sub in python example

import re

result = re.sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0);

Example 5: regex in python

>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile('ab*')
>>> p
re.compile('ab*')