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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

David Fry
David Fry
13,267 Points
Posted by David Fry
David Fry
13,267 Points

I am not sure how to solve the regx twitter handle?

I think I have use the multiline flag and marked the end of the string. I am checking the string variable because the instruction didn't say anything different, but when I look at the string variable there are no twitter handles at the end of each line. What am I missing?

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.+]+@[-\w\d.]+),\s
    (?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s
''', string, re.X)

twitters = re.search(r'^@[\w\d]+.$',string, re.MULTILINE)

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 Points

You are very close. The error is caused by using a caret (^) at the beginning of the regex pattern. The caret anchors the pattern to the beginning of each line. Since you wish to ignore the user name at the beginning of the line, you can either remove the caret, or add extra regex characters to consume the user name between the beginning of the line and the email address.

contacts = re.search(r'''
    (?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.]+),\s #<-- removed caret (^) 
    (?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s
''', string, re.X)

twitters = re.search(r'@[\w\d]+.$',string, re.MULTILINE) #<-- removed caret (^)
David Fry
David Fry
13,267 Points
David Fry
David Fry
13,267 Points

Thanks Chris that worked great!