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Nathan Rolf
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 6,118 PointsWon't detect whitespaces in name fields.
(?P<last>[\w.]+?\s?[\w.]?),\s(?P<first>[\w.-]+):\s(?P<score>\d+$)
It won't pick up the whitespace in the name fields.
import re
string = '''Love, Kenneth: 20
Chalkley, Andrew: 25
McFarland, Dave: 10
Kesten, Joy: 22
Stewart Pinchback, Pinckney Benton: 18'''
1 Answer
Kyle Knapp
21,526 PointsI just added \s in the brackets for <first> and used the same pattern for <last>.
re.compile(r'^(?P<last>[\w\s.-]+),\s(?P<first>[\w\s.-]+):\s(?P<score>\d+$)$', re.MULTILINE)
It appears to work.
Nathan Rolf
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 6,118 PointsNathan Rolf
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 6,118 PointsThank you. Regular expressions have always given me headaches.