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Python

Posted by peterpyne
peterpyne
10,932 Points

How are we picking up the email address with the underscore? We didn't specify an underscore in the set.

print(re.findall(r'[-\w\d+.]+@[-\w\d.]+', data))

Picks up the email address "king_arthur@camelot.co.uk".

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,007 Points

:point_right: The "\w" metacharacter group includes the underscore character.

A "word" character is a character from a-z, A-Z, 0-9, including the _ (underscore) character.

For future reference, you might find this regex cheat sheet handout from a MIT class handy.

peterpyne
peterpyne
10,932 Points

Thanks so much!