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Start your free trialKishore Kumar
5,451 PointsReading Files
I am using the same code that Kenneth is using but not getting the same o/p. I am using pycharm to run my code.
Code:
import re
name_file = open("names.txt", encoding="utf-8")
data = name_file.read()
name_file.close()
# print(data)
# last_name = r'Love'
# first_name = r'Kenneth'
print(re.match(r'Love', data))
print(re.search(r'Kenneth', data))
o/p:
C:\Users\Kishore\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\python.exe C:/Users/Kishore/PycharmProjects/RegularExpression/address_book.py
None
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(7, 14), match='Kenneth'>
Process finished with exit code 0
1 Answer
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Pointsre.match
only matches the beginning of a string. re.search
matches anywhere in the string.
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsChris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsHi Kishore, can you add what output you were expecting?
The
match
returnsNone
since the entiredata
does not match "Love
" exactly.Did you intend to use groups by adding parens to mark group?