[Tutor] regex question

[Richard D. Moores]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:41, Richard D. Moores <rdmoores at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please see http://tutoree7.pastebin.com/z9YeSYRw . I'm actually
> searching RTF files, not TXT files.
>
> I want to modify this script to handle searching on a word. So what,
> for example, should line 71 be?

OK, I think I've got it.

in place of lines 66-75 I now have

search = input("first search string: ")
    search = "\\b" + search + "\\b"
    if not search:
        print("Bye")
        sys.exit()
    elif search[0] != ' ':
        p = re.compile(search, re.I)
    else:
        p = re.compile(search)

Dick