Re: [Tutor] re module- puzzling results when matching money

2013-08-04 Thread Alan Gauld
On 04/08/13 08:45, Alex Kleider wrote: sorry, my bad. I forgot to delete that backslash, I meant re.findall(r"\be\b", "d e f"). Same with the other example. ..but the interesting thing is that the presence or absence of the spurious back slashes seems not to change the results. It wouldn't

Re: [Tutor] re module- puzzling results when matching money

2013-08-04 Thread Dominik George
Hi, not quite. The moral is to learn about greedy and non-greedy matching ;)! -nik Alex Kleider schrieb: >On 2013-08-03 13:38, Dominik George wrote: >> Hi, >> >> b is defined as all non-word characters, so it is the complement oft >> w. w is [A-Za-z0-9_-], so b includes $ and thus cuts off