Thomas wrote:
> I have the following mostly working function to strip the first 4
> digit year out of some text. But a leading space confounds it for
> years starting 20..:
>
> import re
> def getyear(text):
> s = """(?:.*?(19\d\d)|(20\d\d).*?)"""
> p = re.compile(s,re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL
I have the following mostly working function to strip the first 4
digit year out of some text. But a leading space confounds it for
years starting 20..:
import re
def getyear(text):
s = """(?:.*?(19\d\d)|(20\d\d).*?)"""
p = re.compile(s,re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL) #|re.VERBOSE
y = p.match
