regular expressions example

Michael Zingale · Michael Zingale · commit f1d93c87cb38 · 2014-02-27T16:02:38.000-05:00
diff --git a/examples/python-snippets/regex.py b/examples/python-snippets/regex.py
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+import re
+
+strings = [r"<a>this is my string</a>",
+           r"<b>this is a different string</b>"]
+
+# this is the pattern that we will match -- it has 3 groups
+re_test = r"<(\w)>(.*)</(\w)>"
+
+
+for s in strings:
+    a = re.search(re_test, s)
+
+    if not a == None:
+        if a.group(1) == a.group(3):
+            # we found a match
+            print "string in '{}' tags is: {}".format(a.group(1), a.group(2))
+
+
+
