New submission from Poul-Henning Kamp:
I'm surprised that this does not find any matches:
import re
r = re.compile("^abc")
s = "0123abcxyz"
for i in range(0,len(s)):
print(i, r.search(s, i))
I would have expected the i==4 case to match ?
(This is on:
Python 2.7.3 (default, Dec 14 2012, 02:46:02)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible FreeBSD Clang 3.2 (branches/release_32 168974)] on
freebsd10
)
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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 179116
nosy: bsdphk, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: re fails to match ^ when start index is specified ?
versions: Python 2.7
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