regex problem ..

[Steve Holden]

Analog Kid wrote:
> Hi All:
> I am new to regular expressions in general, and not just re in python.
> So, apologies if you find my question stupid :) I need some help with
> forming a regex. Here is my scenario ...
> I have strings coming in from a list, each of which I want to check
> against a regular expression and see whether or not it "qualifies". By
> that I mean I have a certain set of characters that are permissible and
> if the string has characters which are not permissible, I need to flag
> that string ... here is a snip ...
> 
> flagged = list()
> strs = ['HELLO', 'Hi%20There', '123123@#@']
> p =  re.compile(r"""[^a-zA-Z0-9]""", re.UNICODE)
> for s in strs:
>     if len(p.findall(s)) > 0:
>         flagged.append(s)
> 
> print flagged
> 
> my question is ... if I wanted to allow '%20' but not '%', how would my
> current regex (r"""[^a-zA-Z0-9]""") be modified?
> 
The essence of the approach is to observe that each element is a
sequence of zero or more "character", where character is "either
letter/digit or escape." So you would use a pattern like

"([a-zA-Z0-9]|%[0-9a-f][0-9a-f])+"


regards
 Steve
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