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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Posted by olegovich7
olegovich7
6,605 Points

Reg Exp groups

I am so frustrated. What's wrong?

emails.py 
import re

string = '''Love, Kenneth, [email protected], 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, [email protected], 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, [email protected], 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, [email protected], 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''

contacts = re.search(r"""
(?P<email>\b[\w\d+.-]+@[\w\d.]+\b),\s
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})
""", string, re.X)

twitters = re.search(r"""
^(@[\w\d]+)$
""", string, re.X|re.M)

2 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,470 Points

I found this to work:

import re

string = '''Love, Kenneth, [email protected], 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, [email protected], 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, [email protected], 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, [email protected], 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''

contacts = re.search(r"(?P<email>\b[\w\d+.-]+@[\w\d.]+\b),\s(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),?\s?", string, re.X)
olegovich7
olegovich7
6,605 Points

And what about the second task?

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,470 Points 
import re

string = '''Love, Kenneth, [email protected], 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, [email protected], 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, [email protected], 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, [email protected], 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''

contacts = re.search(r"(?P<email>\b[\w\d+.-]+@[\w\d.]+\b),\s(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),?\s?", string, re.X)

twitters = re.search(r"""
    @[a-zA-Z]+$
""", string, re.X|re.M)

That code above seems to work perfectly :)

olegovich7
olegovich7
6,605 Points
olegovich7
olegovich7
6,605 Points

Thank you so much!