Quickie - Regexp for a string not at the beginning of the line

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Oct 25 22:37:23 EDT 2012


On 25/10/2012 21:53, Rivka Miller wrote:
> Hello Programmers,
>
> I am looking for a regexp for a string not at the beginning of the
> line.
>

Why bother with a silly regex thingy when simple string methods will 
suffice e.g.

'yourstring'.find('xyz', 1)

or

'yourstring'.index('xyz', 1)

or

'xyz' in 'yourstring'[1:]

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.




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