reference to every character re code example

Example 1: python re compile

import re
#	Compile a regular expression pattern into a regular expression object, which can be used for matching using its match(), search() and other methods, described below.

prog = re.compile(pattern)
result = prog.match(string)

#	is equivalent to

result = re.match(pattern, string)

Example 2: python re

parse("Today is Dec 1 16", fuzzy_with_tokens=True)
 
parse("Today is Dec 1 14", fuzzy_with_tokens=True)
 
parse("Today is Nov 30 12", fuzzy_with_tokens=True)