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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Email Groups

John Caraballo
John Caraballo
19,943 Points
Posted by John Caraballo
John Caraballo
19,943 Points

Email groups challenge

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

Shouldn't that regexp work to get the emails and phone numbers? I know I'm missing to remove the spaces and whatnot but right now it just returns NONE and that's what I Want to fix first

1 Answer

deckey
deckey
14,630 Points
deckey
deckey
14,630 Points

Hi John, actually the start '^' and end '$' characters are redundant, since you already stated it is a re.MULTILINE. Remove them and it will be fine

cheers