Intro to Regex

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str1 = "BigList = 5"

str1.find("List")


    

    
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3

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str2 = "BigList_123 = 6"
str3 = "BigList_asd = 88"


    

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import re

re.findall("BigList_[\d]* = [\d]*", str2)


    

    
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['BigList_123 = 6']

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re.findall("BigList_[\w]* = [\w]*", str3)


    

    
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['BigList_asd = 88']

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re.findall("BigList_[\w]* = [\w]*", str2)


    

    
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['BigList_123 = 6']

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