RE: regular expression : the dollar sign ($) work with re.match() or re.search() ？

[Prasad, Ramit]

iMath wrote:
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:39 AM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: regular expression : the dollar sign ($) work with re.match() or re.search() ？
> 
> I only know  the dollar sign ($) will match a pattern from the
> end of a string,but which method does it work with ,re.match() or re.search()  ？


You can try this on the interactive interpreter.
>>> re.match('hi$', 'xihi')
>>> re.search('hi$', 'xihi')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x13FF7100>

Although, I think match does not work since match
only starts searching at the start of the string
while search looks for the pattern anywhere in the string.

>>> re.match('x.hi$', 'xihi')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x15693BF0>

I guess you can consider re.match's pattern to be 
prefixed with '^'.

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