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Subject: Re: Correct syntax for pathological re.search()
Date: 13 Oct 2024 10:45:44 GMT
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Gilmeh Serda <gilmeh.serda@nothing.here.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>You don't need to escape the curly braces. 

  Here's the 411 on some gnarly regex characters:

.. matches any single character, except when it hits a new line
^ kicks things off at the start of the sequence
$ wraps it up at the end
* goes zero to infinity
+ one or more times
? maybe once, maybe not
{ starts a specific count, like {2} or {2,3}
} ends such a count
| either this or that
\ flips the script on the next character's meaning
( drops in on a group
) bails out of the group
[ paddles out to a character class
] rides the character class to shore

  .