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

Preliminaries



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# Load regex package
import re

Create some text



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# Create a variable containing a text string
text = 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy brown bear.'



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# Find any word of three letters
re.findall(r'\b...\b', text)









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['The', 'fox', 'the']