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> Yesterday's date is 20070731, and assigned to the variable
> "yesterday_date". I want to loop thru a directory and find all of the
> yesterday's data ONLY IF the feature class has the date at the
> BEGINNING of the filename.
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> I can't figure out the
> syntax of inserting the "^" into the regex.
>
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e.g.
yesterdayRE = re.compile("^"+yesterday_date)
...
should work (assuming yesterday_date is a string), but for that simple tests
you may also try e.g.
filename.startswith(yesterday_date)
(with both filename and yesterday_date being strings).
Greetings,
Vlasta
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