On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Richard D. Moores wrote:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:57, Richard D. Moores<rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:41, Richard D. Moores<rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Please see http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/z9YeSYRw . I'm actually
searching RTF files, not TXT files.
I want to modify this script to handle searching on a word. So what,
for example, should line 71 be?
OK, I think I've got it.
in place of lines 66-75 I now have
search =nput("first search string: ")
search =\\b" + search + "\\b"
if not search:
print("Bye")
sys.exit()
elif search[0] != ':
p =e.compile(search, re.I)
else:
p =e.compile(search)
Oops. That should be
search =nput("first search string: ")
if not search:
print("Bye")
sys.exit()
elif search[0] != ':
search =\\b" + search + "\\b"
p =e.compile(search, re.I)
else:
search =\\b" + search + "\\b"
p =e.compile(search)
Dick
One hazard is if the string the user inputs has any regex special
characters in it. If it's anything but letters and digits you probably
want to escape it before combining it with your \\b strings.
DaveA
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