Title: Match US and UK Spellings
Slug: match_us_uk_spellings
Summary: Match US and UK Spellings
Date: 2016-05-01 12:00
Category: Regex
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Source: 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 = 'It\s center and not centre.'

Apply regex



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# Find any ISBN-10 or ISBN-13 number
re.findall(r'\bcent(?:er|re)\b', text)









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['center', 'centre']