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Regex Help - mp3909 - Sep-17-2017
>>> name = re.compile(r'hello')
>>> mo = name.search('They shouted out hellop to the crowd')
>>> mo.group()
'hello'how can I achieve a strict match of the word 'hello' and not 'hellop' in the above example?
RE: Regex Help - ichabod801 - Sep-17-2017
name = re.compile('hello\b')\b matches the empty string at a word boundary. This will still match 'shello', but you could put a \b at the beginning to stop that too.