On 2012/02/09 08:15 AM, daedae11 wrote:
import re
re.match("^hello", "hello")
re.match("hello", "hello")
Please give a string that matches RE "^hello" but does not match RE "hello", or matches RE "hello" but does not match RE "^hello".
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The caret ^ means "At the beginning of the line" so 'And they said hello' will not be matched by the regex pattern '^hello'.

The docs are pretty good on the module
http://docs.python.org/library/re.html
http://docs.python.org/howto/regex.html
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