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Lucas Alexander
3,528 PointsRegex Group Issues
I'm having an issue getting both emails and phone numbers from these strings using regex. I feel my code is similar to the examples but I must be missing something.
import re
string = '''Love, Kenneth, kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, andrew@teamtreehouse.co.uk, 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, joy@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''
contacts = re.search(r"""
([-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.]+) # email
(\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}) # phone number
""", string, re.X|re.M)
1 Answer
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsYou're getting close, but remember that the instructions say, "Name the email pattern email
and the phone number pattern phone
. The comma and spaces should not be part of the groups."
So at this point:
- you need tokens to give names to the pattern groups (like "
?P<email>
") - you need to account for the comma and space between (but not part of) the items