compile

Compile a regular expression pattern into a regular expression object, which can be used for matching using its match(), search() and other methods, described below.

Syntax

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re.compile(pattern, flags=0)

Examples

Example 1

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prog = re.compile(pattern)
result = prog.match(string)

Example 2

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result = re.match(pattern, string)

See Also

regular expression object match() search() flags re.compile() re.compile()