[Chicago] regular expression headache

[Steve Schwarz]

I tested it in python 2.5, 2.7.6 and 3.3 and it fails in all of them. Seems
to be the "\b", when I remove it it matches.
Steve


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Robert Spelich <rlspelich at gmail.com> wrote:

> import re
> address = 'PO Box 34'
> regex = re.compile("^(?:Post (?:Office )?|P[. ]?O\.? )?Box\b")
> mo = regex.search(address)
> mo
>
> This should return a match object. It returns one when I test it at
> http://www.pythonregex.com.
>
> Thanks again.-Bob
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Steve Schwarz <steve at agilitynerd.com>wrote:
>
>> Bob,
>> Can you post your code/tests? Then we can try it out too and help debug
>> what is going on.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Steve
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>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Robert Spelich <rlspelich at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  Can anyone offer me a suggestion as to why a regular expression that
>>> validates on a testing tool would not match on the same string when run in
>>> a script or directly in the interpreter? I used 2 different online tools,
>>> one a general expression tool and one Python specific. They both matched,
>>> when run locally it does not match.
>>>
>>> I am using an re from a cookbook to match addresses in a database that
>>> start with a PO Box address. I am using 2.7. I am stumped.
>>>
>>> po_box = re.compile('^(?:Post (?:Office )?|P[. ]?O\.? )?Box\b')
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance if anyone can help me out.
>>>
>>> -Bob S.
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