On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 06:26 +0000, Marc Schoechlin wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Nexu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > I'm trying to write a def to match a string that is an irc hostmask. eg:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > But using re.search(). I get an error when the string starts with '*'.
> > What is the best way to solve this?
>
> I suppose the problem occurs because you expression is not a valid
> regular expression.
>
> A correct regular expression should look like this:
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Thx for everyones input.
This solved the problem:
host = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
mask = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
newmask = re.sub('\*', '.*', re.sub('\?', '.', mask))
result in that:
re.search(newmask, host) == True
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