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Re: Regex for re.match not working as expected.

Oct 9th, 2008

The substring "\t" in string is evaluated as a tab character. The re method match only matches at the beginning of a string. Try this:

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import re
s = r'c:\test.doc'
m = re.search(r":(\\[0-9a-z])", s)
if m:
      print m.group(1)
else:
      print m
import re
s = r'c:\test.doc'
m = re.search(r":(\\[0-9a-z])", s)
if m:
      print m.group(1)
else:
      print m