Regular expressions

[Dennis Reinhardt]

> re.search("[yipee]*", line):
>
> This will treat yipee as a string correct?  I want it to treat yipee as a
> variable and perform the different combinations on whatever is inside the
> variable.
You don't want square bracket.  You want parenthesis.  But this is not the
only problem.  Simply replacing the square brackets with parenthesis does
not treat yipee as a variable.  The

    "%s" % variable

idiom will do this

Also, it is not clear why the sample line ends with a colon.  I took it off

The "*" will match on no occurrences and I suspect you want to match on one
or more.   I replaced "*" with "+".

I think you want:

    re.search("(%s)+" % yipee, line)

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Dennis Reinhardt

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