Re: newbie regex

[Leif K-Brooks]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I want to filter some strings,but i don t know how to use compile
 method.

Why not?

 first character must be [a-zA-z] group and others can only be digits or
 letters.

if re.search('^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$', foo):
print Valid string.
else:
print Invalid string.
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Re: newbie regex

[Leif K-Brooks]

Leif K-Brooks wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
I want to filter some strings,but i don t know how to use compile
method.
 
 Why not?


Sorry: I misread that as not _wanting_ to use the compile method.
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