Hi I have a list of regular expression patterns like such:
thelist =
['^594694.*','^689.*','^241.*','^241(0[3-9]|1[0145]|2[0-9]|3[0-9]|41|5[1-37]|6[138]|75|8[014579]).*']
Now I want to iterate thru each of these like:
for pattern in thelist:
regex=re.compile(pattern)
if regex.match('24110'):
the_pattern = pattern
.
.
sys.exit(0)
but in this case it will pick thelist[2] and not the list[3] as I wanted to,
how can I have it pick the pattern that describes it better from the list.
Thanks for your help and advice in advance,
Shidan
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