regular expression - matches

codecraig · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 201

how can i determine if a given character sequence matches my regex,
completely?

in java for example I can do,
Pattern.compile(regex).matcher(input).matches()

this returns True/False whether or not input matches the regex
completely.

is there a matches in python?

Tim Chase · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 156

abcd wrote:

codecraig · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 201

yea i saw that....guess I was trusting that my regex was accurate Smile

....b/c i was getting a Matcher when I shouldnt have, but i found that
it must be the regex.

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