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Jamal Musiala
Jamal Musiala

Reputation: 9

can't match a string with pattern in Python

I'm been programming Java for a long time and recently I've started Python but there's something I can't figure out

import re

test_string = "1989 1989"
matched = re.match("\\d+", test_string)
print(bool(matched))

I'm expecting it to return false, however it returns true. basically I'm just looking for the counterpart of String.matches() in java... I thought maybe you could help me out! thank you in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 135

Answers (1)

Ture Pålsson
Ture Pålsson

Reputation: 6786

re.match matches if any prefix of the string matches the pattern. You probably want re.fullmatch, which checks whether the entire string matches the pattern.

Upvotes: 1

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