The biggest problem that nobody has mentioned yet is the fact that group() will not have anything unless you explicitly tell it to group it.
I.E.
pattern = r'(\d{3})-(\d{3})-(\d{4})'You need the parenthesis to "capture" the groups.
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HTH, Jacob
I'm dping something very simple in RE.
Lets say I'm trying to match an American Phone number
I write the code this way and try to match it: import re string = 'My phone is 410-995-1155' pattern = r'\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}' re.match(pattern,string).group()
but I get this error message Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Python24/findphone", line 4, in -toplevel- re.match(pattern,string).group() AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
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