regular expressions help

[Pradeep Patra]

I am using python 2.7.6 but I also tried on python 3.7.3.

On Thursday, September 19, 2019, Pradeep Patra <smilesonisamal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Beginning of the string. But I tried removing that as well and it still
> could not find it. When I tested at www.regex101.com and it matched
> successfully whereas I may be wrong. Could you please help here?
>
> On Thursday, September 19, 2019, David <bouncingcats at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 17:51, Pradeep Patra <smilesonisamal at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > pattern=re.compile(r'^my\-dog$')
>> > matches = re.search(mystr)
>> >
>> > In the above example both cases(match/not match) the matches returns
>> "None"
>>
>> Hi, do you know what the '^' character does in your pattern?
>>
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