[import re] match or findall?

[gohaku]

Hi everyone,
I am having a problem with the match function:

import re
string = 'abc 123456 xyz'
if re.match("\d{1, }",string):
print "Found a number" #Does not print
whereas findall works:

import re
string = 'abc 123456 xyz'
if re.findall("\d{ 1,}",string):
print "Found a number" #Actually prints

Is there a function similar to findall that will find the 1st
occurrence?
I realize match is probably that similar function but I can't get this
simple
example working, for some reason.

anyone know what's wrong?

Thanks in advance.
-gohaku

[Sam Holden]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 18:02:45 -0400, gohaku <go****@earthli nk.net> wrote:

Hi everyone,
I am having a problem with the match function:

import re
string = 'abc 123456 xyz'
if re.match("\d{1, }",string):
print "Found a number" #Does not print
whereas findall works:

import re
string = 'abc 123456 xyz'
if re.findall("\d{ 1,}",string):
print "Found a number" #Actually prints

Is there a function similar to findall that will find the 1st
occurrence?
I realize match is probably that similar function but I can't get this
simple
example working, for some reason.

Match only matches at the beginning of the string, which is very different from
finding the first occurance.
match = re.search("\d{1 ,}",string)
if match is not None:
print "Found a number:", match.group()

--
Sam Holden