I'm trying to scan a (binary) file for a string matching a particular
pattern, and am getting unexpected results. I don't know if this is a bug
or just my own misunderstandin g of regular expressions.
The string I'm searching for is a "versioned file name" of the form:
"AMS_epXXXx.flt ", where 'XXX' is 1 to 3 numerals, the 'x' is lower case 'a-z',
and the '_' and 'ep' are each optional. In other words, the following are
examples that match:
AMSep12a.flt
ams_ep101b.flt
ams_123z.flt
ams12z.flt
The regular expression pattern I'm using is:
prefix='ams'
pat = re.compile(pref ix + r'(?:(_)?(ep)?([0-9]{1,3}[a-z])\.flt)', re.I)
I'm using the parenthesized groups to conditionally process the match, i.e.,
if there is no '_' or 'ep' in the name, I still want the match but handle
it differently. In my pattern above, group 1 is the (_) group, group 2 is
the (ep) group, and group 3 is the "version string" group.
The problem I'm having is that the following string of bytes (hex data from
a file I'm scanning) returns a '_' in match group 1 even though it is
outside the filename pattern that is properly detected:
Here's a code snippet to illustrate:
#============== =============== =============== =============== =============== ==
import binascii, re
prefix = 'ams'
#...
pat = re.compile(pref ix + r'(?:(_)?(ep)?([0-9]{1,3}[a-z])\.flt)', re.I)
#...scan file...
#-------------------------
# bytes in problem string (note that this section is arbitrary and not part
# of the actual problem; it's just my attempt at converting the output of
# a hexdump file utility into a python string so as to illustrate the problem
# in a self-contained test case:
# problem data in file:
#
# 000a 0004 0002 0020 414d 535f 6a75 6c00
# 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
# 0000 0000 000a 0004 003f 00d8 414d 5365
# 7031 3031 692e 666c 7400 0000 0000 0000
# 000a 0004 0002 0020 414d 535f 6a75 6c00 ....... AMS_jul.
# 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ............... .
# 0000 0000 000a 0004 003f 00d8 414d 5365 .........?..AMS e
# 7031 3031 692e 666c 7400 0000 0000 0000 p101i.flt...... .
bytes = '000a0004000200 20414d535f6a756 c00000000000000 000000000000000 000000000000000 0a0004003f00d84 14d536570313031 692e666c7400000 000000000'
ascii = binascii.a2b_he x(bytes)
#-------------------------
m = pat.search(asci i)
print m.groups()
print m.span(0), m.span(1), m.span(2), m.span(3)
#output: ('_', 'ep', '101i')
# (44, 57) (11, 12) (47, 49) (49, 53)
#
# Note that the '_' reported at position 11 in "AMS_jul" is outside the
# range of the "real" matched string "AMSep101i. flt" at positions (44-57)!
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