Hello Python Friends.
I have a string array, called "line_array".
There may be up to 50 or more elements in the array.
So:
- line_array[1] may contain "01/04/2013 10:43 AM 17,410,217
DEV-ALL-01-04-13.rlc\n"
- line_array[2] may contain "01/25/2013 03:21 PM 17,431,230
DEV-ALL-01-25-2013.rlc\n"
- line_array[3] may contain "\n"
I want to retain all elements which are valid (i.e. contains a date
value xx/xx/xxxx)
So I'm using a regex search for the date value located at the start of
each element...this way
misc_int1 =
re.search(r'[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}',line_array[x]).start()
This method works really well when the regex date characters are found.
It returns the value 0 to misc_int1 because the date regex starts at 0
position.
I was hoping the .start() method would return a -1 value for the
instance in which the regex search string is not found.
That way I could iterate through the elements and retain only the valid
ones.
However, the .start() method throws an error if the regex search string
is not found.
Your suggestions greatly appreciated!
Thanks!!
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