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8,254 PointsName groups in regular expressions
Not sure what I'm missing here
import re
string = 'Perotto, Pier Giorgio'
names = re.match(r'[-\w ]+,\s[-\w ]+',string)
2 Answers
Akio Ito
14,396 PointsI've found this passes the challenge. I'm sure it can written in various ways:
names = re.match(r'(?P<first_name>[\w]+),\s(?P<last_name>[\w ]+)', string)
boi
14,242 PointsThe challenge states "The pattern should provide two groups", Your solution has no groups. If you don't know what are groups, I recommend going back to the previous video, to understand Regular expressions groups.