I'm having trouble creating a regex pattern that matches a string that
has an optional substring in it. What I'm looking for is a pattern
that matches both of these strings:
Subject: [PATCH 08/18] This is the patch name
Subject: This is the patch name
What I want is to extract the "This is the patch name". I tried this:
m = re.search('Subject:\s*(\[[\w\s]*\])*(.*)', x)
Unfortunately, the second group appears to be too greedy, and returns
this:
>>> print m.group(1)
None
>>> print m.group(2)
[PATCH 08/18] Subject line
>>>
Can anyone help me? I'd hate to have to use two regex patterns, one
with the [...] and one without.
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