Variable in Regex

J Hamilton

In Perl in can put a scalar variable in a regex as the pattern.

for example: m/$var/ where $var contains the string I want to match

Is there a way to do this in Python?

Jul 18 '05 #1

Christian von Essen

J Hamilton wrote:

In Perl in can put a scalar variable in a regex as the pattern.

for example: m/$var/ where $var contains the string I want to match

Is there a way to do this in Python?

For example:
re.search("%s" % var, StrinToMatch)
or even simpler:
re.search(var, StringToMatch)

Jul 18 '05 #2

J Hamilton

Christian von Essen <ch*******@mvonessen.de> wrote in message news:<c4**********@online.de>...

J Hamilton wrote:

In Perl in can put a scalar variable in a regex as the pattern.

for example: m/$var/ where $var contains the string I want to match

Is there a way to do this in Python?

For example:
re.search("%s" % var, StrinToMatch)
or even simpler:
re.search(var, StringToMatch)

I don't know what I was doing wrong, but it works now.

Thanks for the help!

Jul 18 '05 #3