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Rungano Matonda
3,237 PointsCreate a function named find_emails that takes a string.return a list of all the email adress in the string
Hi guys...need help here...I am getting "bummer! multiple repeat"
import re
# Example:
# >>> find_email("kenneth.love@teamtreehouse.com, @support, ryan@teamtreehouse.com, test+case@example.co.uk")
# ['kenneth@teamtreehouse.com', 'ryan@teamtreehouse.com', 'test@example.co.uk']
def find_emails(str):
return re.findall(r'\b[@]+{1}\b', str)
1 Answer
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,425 PointsHi Rungano Matonda, the regular expression needs to match a complete email address. Your current regex r'\b[@]+{1}\b'
says:
word-boundary start-set @-char end-set one-or-more-sets exactly-once word-boundary
What you need is:
word-boundary start-set legal-pre-@-chars end-set one-or-more sets AT-sign start-set legal-post-@-chars end-set one-or-more sets word-boundary
where legal-pre-@-chars
is any-word-char, period, and plus-sign, and legal-post-@-chars
is any-word-char, and period
This can be represented by the regex r'\b[\w.+]+@[\w.]+\b'
def find_emails(str):
return re.findall(r'\b[\w.+]+@[\w.]+\b', str)
Rungano Matonda
3,237 PointsRungano Matonda
3,237 PointsThanks a lot Chris...That really helped me out:)