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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

Posted by dylan hamm
dylan hamm
3,667 Points

so as far as I can tell, this should be working

I think maybe its because I'm not dealing with white space and commas but I really don't know how to

emails.py 
import re

string = '''Love, Kenneth, kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, andrew@teamtreehouse.co.uk, 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, joy@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''
contacts = re.search(r'''
    (?P<email>[-\w\d+.]+@)
    (?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}])
''', string, re.X)

1 Answer

james south
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james south
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james south
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james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Points

i think your phone number re is ok except you have an unmatched closing bracket (]) which can be removed. your email re is just incomplete i think, it is stopping at ampersands and not picking up domains. try ([-\w\d+.]+@[-\w\d+.]*) to get the rest of the addresses.