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Showing posts with label Regular Expression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regular Expression. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Regular Expression

Regular Expression is really cool, All should know it;) Initially you might feel that its too complex but when u get into it u feel its look complex but it is really cool and easy to use. It completes big task in few lines....... Its really great;) Below is my first function in Python which i have used to search for a String using '*' to escape and search in string. Cheers Python B) def SearchString(pattern,string): ulist = pattern.split('*') if len(ulist) > 1: k = '^' + ulist[0] + '[\w|\_|\-]*' + ''.join([ i + '[\w|\_|\-]*' for i in ulist[1:-1]]) + ulist[-1] + '$' print k if re.search(k,user) != None: return "Found" else: return "Not Found" elif ulist == string: return "Found" else: return "Not Found" >>> SearchUser('vin*jda*is','vinojdavis') ^vin[\w|\_|\-]*jda[\w|\_|\-]*is$ 'Found' >>> SearchUser('vi**jda*is','vinojdavis') ^vi[\w|\_|\-]*[\w|\_|\-]*jda[\w|\_|\-]*is$ 'Found' >>> SearchUser('vin*jda*is','viojdavis') ^vin[\w|\_|\-]*jda[\w|\_|\-]*is$ 'Not Found'