Regex for re.match not working as expected.
 

I have the following code:

import re

string = 'c:\test.doc'

if re.match(r":\\[0-9a-z]", string):

      ##r":\\[0-9a-z]" should match ':\t'

      print 'true'

else:

      print 'false'

the problem I am having is that this is always evaluating to false.

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

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:

import re

s = r'c:\test.doc'

m = re.search(r":(\\[0-9a-z])", s)

if m:

      print m.group(1)

else:

      print m

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

Ok, I'm not used to that yet, in PHP if I encased the string in ' it would have not evaluated the \t, or any other special character.

Thanks.

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

you could just as easily do

s = 'c:\\test.doc'

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

If the file name is a variable returned from some source:

>>> s = "c:\test.doc"

>>> s1 = repr(s).strip("'")

>>> s1

'c:\\test.doc'

>>>