Title: Match Any Of A List Of Characters
Slug: match_any_of_a_list_of_symbols
Summary: Match Any Of A List Of Characters
Date: 2016-05-01 12:00
Category: Regex
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Based on: Regular Expressions Cookbook

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.'

Apply regex



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# Find all instances of any vowel
re.findall(r'[aeiou]', text)









    Out[5]:





['e', 'u', 'i', 'o', 'o', 'u', 'e', 'o', 'e', 'e', 'a', 'o', 'e', 'a']