Title: Match Any Of A Series Of Words
Slug: match_any_of_series_of_words
Summary: Match Any Of A Series Of Words
Date: 2016-05-01 12:00
Category: Regex
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Based on: Regular Expressions Cookbook

Preliminaries



In [4]:

    
# 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 any of fox, snake, or bear
re.findall(r'\b(fox|snake|bear)\b', text)









    Out[6]:





['fox', 'bear']