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megna
megna

Reputation: 245

Wildcard match in python

I have a string in python

x =  "orange".

The program accepts an input string.If the input string matches the wildcard pattern of x, then I perform some operation. The pattern is 

pattern = "#.orange.*"

# (hash) - can substitute for zero or more words.

*(star) - can substitute for exactly one word.

So, if my input string is "quick.orange.rabbit", then it should match. Can anyone help me how to do this in python?? I have tried - 

import re
input_str = input("enter string")
pattern = #.orange.*
p = re.compile(pattern)
if p.match(input_str):
   # do something

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1954

Answers (1)

Rens Oliemans
Rens Oliemans

Reputation: 106

Not sure if I'm understanding the Regex idea correctly, but if I'm correct, you want to match the following:
(Zero or more words).orange.(Exactly one word)

Now I do not know if the words in the hash are seperated by spaces, periods or are just words after each other, but here are the following cases:

Hash words separated by spaces

pattern = r"(?P<hash>(\w+|\s)*)\.(?P<orange>orange)\.(?P<star>\w+)"

Hash words seperated by periods

pattern = r"(?P<hash>(\w+|\.)*)\.(?P<orange>orange)\.(?P<star>\w+)"

Hash words just after each other

pattern = r"(?P<hash>(\w*))\.(?P<orange>orange)\.(?P<star>\w+)"

If you don't want to have the (?P<>) syntax, you can also just do the following

pattern = r"(\w+|\s)*\.orange\.\w+"

Which will match against your string and tell you if it is a match, but you then can't do

match.group('hash')

To get the hash words.

Upvotes: 1

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