Title: Match A Symbol
Slug: match_a_symbol
Summary: Match A Symbol
Date: 2016-05-01 12:00
Category: Regex
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Preliminaries



In [1]:

    
# Load regex package
import re

Create some text



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# Create a variable containing a text string
text = '$100'



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# Find all instances of the exact match '$'
re.findall(r'\$', text)









    Out[4]:





['$']