Re: Variable in Regex

From: Christian von Essen (christian_at_mvonessen.de)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:17:34 +0100

J Hamilton wrote:
> In Perl in can put a scalar variable in a regex as the pattern.
>
> for example: m/$var/ where $var contains the string I want to match
>
> Is there a way to do this in Python?

For example:
re.search("%s" % var, StrinToMatch)
or even simpler:
re.search(var, StringToMatch)

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