Ashok Prabhu wrote: > The following is a sample of my problem. I get input from user and > store it in variable 'b'. I want to match the user input with the > contents of another variable 'a'. However I m not able to get the > exact match. Could someone help? > >>>> print a > c > c+ > >>>> b > 'c+' >>>> re.search(b,a).group() > 'c' > > In the above example I want re to find the string 'c+' instead of 'c'. > I want a solution without escaping the '+' symbol with backslash > because it is given by the user.
>>> a = "yadda c+ yadda" >>> b = "c+" >>> re.search(re.escape(b), a).group() 'c+' But if you aren't interested in anything but string literals, you should use string search: >>> a.index(b) 6 Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
